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Potawatomi

Potawatomi

1 9.9
A member of a Native American people from the Great Lakes region
  • proper noun
  • /ˌpoʊtəˈwɑːtəmi/
: Potawatomi
  • And at least for the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, that's something that people, people come to at different points in their lives.
  • Potawatomi Indians

And at least for the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, that's something that people, people come to at different points in their lives.

Examples

  • As Smith writes, the Menominee, Cree, and Potawatomi "share a similar geographic distribution and many common cultural/religious elements." 2

    Academic text (1997)

  • A room devoted to representations of Native Americans is dominated by portrait prints by Karl Bodmer and two canvases of oil portrait studies of Potawatomi Indians by George Winter.

    Academic text (2012)

  • While we cannot enter his soul, we do see him defend his brother against Potawatomi government chiefs at the Indian council of May 15, 1812.

    Academic text (1992)

  • Potawatomi Bingo Casino is one of two casinos owned and operated by the Forest County Potawatomi Community.

    Blog text (27)

  • The Potawatomi and the Oneidas are buying the place back with their casino winnings.

    Blog text (7)

  • We Anishinabe call ourselves the People of the Three Fires, which includes Ojibwe, Ottawa, and Potawatomi.

    Academic text (1997)

  • So, instead of becoming a Shawnee chief, he entered the Indian Service in 1882, working first as a teacher at the Potawatomi school and then returning home as school principal.

    Academic text (2002)

  • The treaty, concluded between the United States and the federally recognized leaders of the Delaware, "Eel River," Miami, and Potawatomi Indians, gained for the states "upwards of two million and a half acres" at the cost of "less than two cents per acre." 58

    Academic text (1992)

  • Tater, non-Native people referred to these local Native Americans as the Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi, which referred to the division of the Algonquian people into the Michigan Three Fires Confederacy.

    Academic text (2016)

  • Her mother is a daughter of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation in Oklahoma.

Synonyms

Native American
vsPotawatomi
93 3.4

A person whose family lived in North or South America before Europeans arrived

is a member of one specific Indigenous people from the Great Lakes

Compounds

Potawatomi language
9.9

A language the Potawatomi people speak near the Great Lakes

Surface Forms

Potawatomi main

Etymology

Potawatomi comes from the word Bodéwadomi in their own language, meaning 'those who keep the fire'. That's why Potawatomi is the name for this group from the Great Lakes.