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TNB->Potawatomi: Hannahville Potawatomi Indian Community
Posted on Tuesday, November 22 @ 04:02:26 PST (5502 reads)
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The Hannahville Potawatomi Indian Community is located in the south-central section of Michigan's Upper Peninsula in Menominee Country, 20 miles west of Escanaba, MI and 95 miles northeast of Green Bay, WI.
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TNB->Potawatomi: How to weave a cattail mat
Posted on Monday, November 21 @ 22:05:06 PST (5129 reads)
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Sewn cattail mats were often used as exterior coverings of wigwams. Most full-size sewn cattail mats measured five to six feet wide and 10 feet long. It would take half a dozen or more mats to cover a wigwam.
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TNB->Potawatomi: Prarie Band of Potawatomi Indians Overview
Posted on Wednesday, January 30 @ 02:38:55 PST (10659 reads)
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The name Potawatomink or Potawaganink meaning "people of the place of the fire" or "nation of fire" originally applied to the Potawatomi and their close neighbors, the Sauk.
The Potawatomi belong to the Algonquin linguistic family and according to tradition they were closely associated with the Chippewa and Ottawa with whom they reached the region about the upper end of Lake Huron. They were reported by the Jesuits as still living together as late as 1841.
In 1670 a portion of them were living on the islands at the mouth of Green Bay in the vicinity of the Jesuit mission of St. Francis Xavier. They were moving southward and by the close of the 17th century had established themselves on the Milwaukee River at Chicago and on the St. Joseph River mostly in territory previously held by the Miami.
By the beginning of the 19th century they occupied country around the head of Lake Michigan from the Milwaukee River in Wisconsin to the Grand River in Michigan and extending southwest over a large part of northern Illinois, east across Michigan to Lake Eric and south into Indiana. Within this territory they had about 50 villages.
As white settlement rapidly pressed upon them, the Potawatomi sold their land piecemeal and removed west beyond the Mississippi. A part of the Potawatomi tribe remained in Indiana until forced out by the military. Some escaped into Canada and are now settled on Walpole Island in Lake St. Clair.
Those Potawatomi who went west were settled partly in West Iowa and partly in Kansas. In 1846 they were all united on a reservation in Kansas.
In 1861 a large part of the Potawatomi Tribe took land in severalty and became known as the Citizen Potawatomi. The others known as the Prairie Band remained in Kansas except for a few in Wisconsin and the small Huron band in Michigan.
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