Great Lakes

Potawatomi

~30,000Potawatomi, EnglishSince 1200 CE

About the Potawatomi People

The Potawatomi, Keepers of the Fire among the Anishinaabe, maintained villages around the Great Lakes before removals west; today multiple sovereign Potawatomi nations steward culture and land.

Cultural Traditions

Black Ash Basketry

Sugar Bush Camps

Powwows

Language Revitalization

Historical Timeline

1833

Treaty of Chicago cedes homelands and paves way for removal

1838

Potawatomi Trail of Death forced march to Kansas

1861

Citizen Potawatomi reorganize under a new constitution