Potawatomi
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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 the Iroquois Confederacy and the Sioux.
There are several active 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, Ontario, 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://www.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)
- The Official Site of the Kettle & Stony Point First Nation (http://www.kettlepoint.org)