Potawatomi

American  

[pot-uh-wot-uh-mee] / ˌpɒt əˈwɒt ə mi /

noun

• Potawatomis,
  plural
• Potawatomi
  plural

1. Also called Bodewadmi. a member of an Algonquian people originally of Michigan and Wisconsin.

2. Also called Bodewadmimwen. the Algonquian language of the Potawatomi, closely related to Ojibwe.

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adjective

1. of or relating to the Potawatomi or their language.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Potawatomi
  plural
• Potawatomis
  plural

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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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Example Sentences

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Potawatomi Potawatomis

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

Potawatomis and Miamis, look upon each other as brothers, and at the same time look upon your grandfathers, the Delawares.

From The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 by Elmore Barce

In speaking of the recent murders, Tecumseh said he greatly regretted that the ill-will of the Americans should be exercised upon his followers, when the Potawatomis, over whom he had no power, alone were guilty.

From Tecumseh A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People; Vol. 17 of Chronicles of Canada by Ethel T. Raymond

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