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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 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, KansasKansas derived from the Siouan word Kansa meaning "People of the south wind", is a midwestern state in the United States. postal abbreviation for the state is KS and the state flower is the sunflower. The state motto is "Ad astra per aspera", Latin for "t
- Stoney Point and Kettle Point bands, CanadaCanada historically the Dominion of Canada is the second-largest, and northernmost, country in the world. It is a decentralized federation of 10 provinces and 3 territories, governed as a constitutional monarchy, and formed in 1867 through an act of Confe
- Walpole IslandWalpole Island in an island in southwestern Ontario, Canada on the border between Ontario and Michigan in the United States. It is located in the mouth of the St. Clair River on Lake St. Clair, approximately 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Detroit, Michigan band; an uncededIn North America, unceded territory is territory that has never been set apart, legislated, founded, created or established as a reserve. Therefore, the title is still held, and has been continuously held, by the indigenous people who lived there when Eur island between the United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in and CanadaCanada historically the Dominion of Canada is the second-largest, and northernmost, country in the world. It is a decentralized federation of 10 provinces and 3 territories, governed as a constitutional monarchy, and formed in 1867 through an act of Confe
External links
(http://www.PotawatomiTracks.com The Official Site of Potawatomi Author Larry Mitchell.
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