Potawatomi

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
• Prairie Band Potawatomi
• Citizen Potawatomi Nation
• Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi
• Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi
• Treaties with the Potawatomi
• The Official Site of Potawatomi Author Larry Mitchell
• The Official Site of the Kettle & Stony Point First Nation