Potawatomi Tribes

Various Spellings: Potawatomi, Potawatami, Potawatamie, Putawatimi, Pattawatima, Patawattimie, Pottwatami, Potawattimie, Pottawattimie, Pattawatima, Putawatame, Pottowotomee, Pottawatamy, Poutawatamie, Pottowautomie

Ancestral homeland: Lower peninsula of present-day Michigan

Brief Timeline
1670: Nicholas Perot- French explorer made contact with the tribe

1689-1763: fought with the French during the French and Indian Wars

1775-83: fought with the British against the Americans

1790-94: Little Turtle's War the tribe fought with other tribes to descourage non-Indian settlement

1809-11: Tecumsen's Rebellion fought with other tribes to descourage non-indian settlement

1832: Black Hawk War fought with other tribes to descourage non-indian settlement

after 1831: Many removed to: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Missouri, then on to Iowa, Kansas and Indian Territory (Oklahoma)

1838: migration from Indiana to Oklahoma is called the "Trail of Death"

Additional References to the History of the Tribe
Frederick Webb Hodge, in his Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, gave a more complete history of the Potawatomi tribe, with estimations of the population of the tribe at various time periods. Additional details are given in John Swanton's The Indian Tribes of North America.

Bands and Groups of the Potawatomi Tribe and Their Reservations/Localities
The term or designation of Potawatomi Indians is a very broad categorization of several bands and/or federally recognized tribes within the group so named. For the most part, they have historically ranged from Canadian border on the north to Oklahoma on the south and from Ohio on the east to the Mississippi River Valley and beyond on the west. Some of the tribes, bands, or groups of Potawatomi, with their colonies or reservations, include:


 * Citizen Potawatomi Nation -- (Oklahoma)
 * Forest County Potawatomi Community -- (Wisconsin)
 * Hannahville Indian Community -- (Michigan)
 * Huron Potawatomi, Inc. -- (Michigan)
 * Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Potawatomi -- (Michigan)
 * Pokagon Band -- (Michigan and Indiana)
 * Prairie Band of Potawatomi -- (Kansas)

Allotment Records


 * 1863 Potawatomie Land rolls http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com
 * 1887 Potawatomie-Prairie Band Land Allotment http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com
 * 1887 PotawatomieCitizens Band Land Allotment Roll-Kansas http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com

Correspondence and Census Records

Enrollment


 * 1870-1880 Potawatomie, Citizens Band in Kansas http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com
 * 1880 Potawatomie Roll - Prairie Band http://freepages.genealogy.rootsbeb.com

Treaties


 * 1789 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/wya0018.htm January 9, at Fort Harmar
 * 1795 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/wya0039.htm August 3, at Greenville
 * 1803 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/del0064.htm
 * 1805 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/wya0077.htm July 4, at Fort Industry
 * 1805 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/del0080.htm August 21, at Grouseland
 * 1807 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/ott0092.htm November 17, at Detroit
 * 1808 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/chi0099.htm November 25, at Brownstown
 * 1815 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/pot0110.htm July 18, at Portage des Sioux
 * 1815 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/wya0117.htm September 8, at Spring Wells
 * 1816 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/ott0132.htm August 24, at St. Louis
 * 1817 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/wya0145.htm September 29, at the Miami
 * 1818 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/pot0168.htm October 2, at St. Mary's
 * 1818 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/wya0162.htm September 17,
 * 1825 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/wya0162.htm August 19, at Prairie du Chien
 * 1826 http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/pot0273.htm October 16, on the Wabash
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Vital Records


 * Potawatomi Agency, M595, births and deaths 1918-1935, FHL Film: 580774
 * Sac and Fox Agency, M595, births and deaths 1930-1939, FHL Film: 581446
 * Shawnee Agency, M595, births and deaths 1910-1934, FHL Film: 581870

Important Web Sites

 * Constitution of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation
 * Potawatomi Tribe Wikipedia