Potawatomi
Americannoun
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Also called Bodewadmi. a member of an Algonquian people originally of Michigan and Wisconsin.
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Also called Bodewadmimwen. the Algonquian language of the Potawatomi, closely related to Ojibwe.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of Potawatomi
First recorded in 1690–1700; from French Poutouatami, Pouteouatami, from Ojibwe po·te·wa·tami· “those who tend the hearth fire” (of the Council of Three Fires)
Example Sentences
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Most recently, they posted a video with long snapper James Winchester, a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, and center Creed Humphrey, who is from the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.
From Washington Times • Feb. 9, 2023
After quarantining at Fort Peck, they arrived at the Forest County Potawatomi farm through an InterTribal Buffalo Council transfer in 2020.
From Salon • Nov. 27, 2022
Northeast Kansas is home to four Native American nations: the Iowa, the Kickapoo, the Prairie Band Potawatomi and the Sac and Fox.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 24, 2022
For example, his tribe, the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, was forcibly relocated twice from its home in the Great Lakes region: first to Kansas, and then to Oklahoma.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 27, 2021
In 1809 Indiana’s territorial governor, William Henry Harrison, badgered and bribed a few destitute Delaware, Miami, and Potawatomi individuals to sign the Treaty of Fort Wayne.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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