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Potawatomi

[ pot-uh-wot-uh-mee ]

noun

, plural Pot·a·wat·o·mis, (especially collectively) Pot·a·wat·o·mi.
  1. Also called Bod·e·wad·mi [bod-, uh, -, wod, -mee]. a member of an Algonquian people originally of Michigan and Wisconsin.
  2. Also called Bod·e·wad·mim·wen [bod-, uh, -, wod, -mim-wen]. the Algonquian language of the Potawatomi, closely related to Ojibwe.


adjective

  1. of or relating to the Potawatomi or their language.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Potawatomi1

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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Example Sentences

Many students are surprised to learn that Chicago — or Zhegagoynak in the Potawatomi language — has an Indigenous history, not to mention present.

His crime, based on his marriage to a Potawatomi woman, was deemed “intercourse with the enemy.”

For the early habitat of the Potawatomi, consult Croghan's Journals, in our volume i, p. 115 note 84.

The Potawatomi's powerful two-handed grip tore the pistol from his fingers.

But we'll have a band of Potawatomi scouts led by one of their chiefs, Billy Caldwell, to guide us.

I can handle the language of the Algonquin like a native, being part Potawatomi myself.

The Potawatomi women were inclined to greasiness and obesity.

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