20 Facts About Potawatomi

The Potawatomi call themselves Neshnabe, a cognate of the word Anishinaabe.

The Potawatomi are part of a long-term alliance, called the Council of Three Fires, with the Ojibway and Odawa.

Alternatively, the Potawatomi call themselves, a cognate of Ojibwe, meaning "original people".

Potawatomi teach their children about the "Seven Grandfather Teachings" of wisdom, respect, love, honesty, humility, bravery, and truth toward each other and all creation, each one of which teaches them the equality and importance of their fellow tribesmen and respect for all of nature's creations.

Potawatomi's brings back a hot coal out of which they make fire, and they celebrate her honor and bravery.

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Potawatomi are first mentioned in French records, which suggests that in the early 17th century, they lived in what is southwestern Michigan.

At the time of the War of 1812, a band of Potawatomi inhabited the area near Fort Dearborn, where Chicago developed.

The French helped to solidify their alliance with the Potawatomi by helping them raid numerous Sauk villages and Fox villages in the early 1700s as well as by compelling the Kickapoo nation to make many concessions to the Potawatomi.

The Potawatomi captured every British frontier garrison but the one at Detroit.

Potawatomi nation continued to grow and expanded westward from Detroit, most notably in the development of the St Joseph villages adjacent to the Miami in southwestern Michigan.

The Potawatomi had a decentralized society, with several main divisions based on geographic locations: Milwaukee or Wisconsin area, Detroit or Huron River, the St Joseph River, the Kankakee River, Tippecanoe and Wabash Rivers, the Illinois River and Lake Peoria, and the Des Plaines and Fox Rivers.

Removal period of Potawatomi history began with the treaties of the late 1820s when the United States created reservations.

Some Potawatomi became religious followers of the "Kickapoo Prophet", Kennekuk.

The Illinois Potawatomi were removed to Nebraska and the Indiana Potawatomi to Kansas, both west of the Mississippi River.

The removal of the Indiana Potawatomi was documented by a Catholic priest, Benjamin Petit, who accompanied the Indians on the Potawatomi Trail of Death.

Potawatomi's diary was published in 1941 by the Indiana Potawatomi'storical Society.

Potawatomi first lived in lower Michigan, then moved to northern Wisconsin, and eventually settled into northern Indiana and central Illinois.

Potawatomi is a Central Algonquian language spoken around the Great Lakes in Michigan and Wisconsin.

Potawatomi language is most similar to the Odawa language; it has borrowed a considerable amount of vocabulary from Sauk.

Many places in the Midwest have names derived from the Potawatomi language, including Waukegan, Muskegon, Oconomowoc, Pottawattamie County, Kalamazoo, and Skokie.