Potawatomi
Americannoun
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Potawatomis,
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Potawatomi
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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.
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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)
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Some of these languages — such as Hawaiian, Quechua and Potawatomi — are already critically endangered because of globalization, migration and cultural homogenization.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 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
The vote came after a report from an advisory group that included representatives from the four federally recognized tribes in Kansas — the Kickapoo, Sac & Fox, Iowa and Prairie Band Potawatomi.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 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
In the spring of 1763, a war chief named Pontiac took the first step by organizing a siege of Fort Detroit by Potawatomis, Hurons, and his own Ottawa tribe.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
The conflict began in earnest in 1763, when Pontiac and several hundred Ojibwas, Potawatomis, and Hurons laid siege to Fort Detroit.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
At that meeting Tecumseh had delegates with him from several nations, including Kickapoos, Wyandots, Peorias, Ojibwas, Potawatomis, Winnebagos, and Shawnees.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
From Chicago had come word that the Potawatomis and other tribes near Fort Dearborn were preparing.
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
Black-hawk had about five hundred braves, mainly Sacs and Foxes, with a few Winnebagos and Potawatomis; but when twenty-five hundred soldiers were chasing him through the settlements, he stood little show.
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
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