Potawatomi - Definition and Overview

The Potawatomi (also spelled Pottawatomie or Pottawatomi) are an Aboriginal American people of the upper Mississippi River region.

The Potawatomi were part of a long term alliance with the Ottawa and Ojibwe, called the Council of Three Fires and which fought with the Iroquois Confederacy and the Sioux.

There are several bands of Potawatomi:

• Citizen Potawatomi nation, Oklahoma
• Forest County Potawatomi community, Wisconsin
• Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi (formerly known as the Gun Lake tribe), based in Dorr, Michigan in Allegan County, Michigan
• Hannahville Indian Community, Michigan
• Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi, based in Calhoun County, Michigan
• Pokagon Band, Michigan and Indiana
• Prairie Band, Kansas
• Stoney Point and Kettle Point bands, Canada
• Walpole Island band; an unceded island between the United States and Canada

External links

• First Nations Compact Histories: Potawatomi History (http://www.tolatsga.org/pota.html)
• Prairie Band Potawatomi (http://www.ukans.edu/~kansite/pbp/homepage.html)
• Citizen Potawatomi Nation (http://www.potawatomi.org/)
• Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi (http://itcmi.org/thehistorytribal2.html)
• Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi (http://www.mbpi.org/default.asp)
• Treaties with the Potawatomi (http://www.ukans.edu/~kansite/pbp/books/treaties/title.html#toc)
• The Official Site of Potawatomi Author Larry Mitchell (http://www.potawatomivet.com)