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Book Potawatomi of the West

Download or read book Potawatomi of the West written by Joseph F. Murphy and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Potawatomi Indian Summer

Download or read book Potawatomi Indian Summer written by E. William Oldenburg and published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 1975 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six children find themselves transported back several centuries to a time in which the forests around their home were inhabited by Potawatomi Indians.

Book The Potawatomis

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  • Author : R. David Edmunds
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 1978-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780806120690
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book The Potawatomis written by R. David Edmunds and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Potawatomi Indians were the dominant tribe in the region of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and southern Michigan during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Active participants in the fur trade, and close friends with many French fur traders and government leaders, the Potawatomis remained loyal to New France throughout the colonial period, resisting the lure of the inexpensive British trade goods that enticed some of their neighbors into alliances with the British. During the colonial wars Potawatomi warriors journeyed far to the south and east to fight alongside their French allies against Braddock in Pennsylvania and other British forces in New York. As French fortunes in the Old Northwest declined, the Potawatomis reluctantly shifted their allegiance to the British Crown, fighting against the Americans during the Revolution, during Tecumseh’s uprising, and during the War of 1812. The advancing tide of white settlement in the Potawatomi lands after the wars brought many problems for the tribe. Resisting attempts to convert them into farmers, they took on the life-style of their old friends, the French traders. Raids into western territories by more warlike members of the tribe brought strong military reaction from the United States government and from white settlers in the new territories. Finally, after great pressure by government officials, the Potawatomis were forced to cede their homelands to the United States in exchange for government annuities. Although many of the treaties were fraudulent, government agents forced the tribe to move west of the Mississippi, often with much turmoil and suffering. This volume, the first scholarly history of the Potawatomis and their influence in the Old Northwest, is an important contribution to American Indian history. Many of the tribe’s leaders, long forgotten, such as Main Poc, Siggenauk, Onanghisse, Five Medals, and Billy Caldwell, played key roles in the development of Indian-white relations in the Great Lakes region. The Potawatomi experience also sheds light on the development of later United States policy toward Indians of many other tribes.

Book The Potawatomi Indians

Download or read book The Potawatomi Indians written by Otho Winger and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Prairie People

Download or read book The Prairie People written by James A. Clifton and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to reprinting the full text of Clifton's extraordinary ethnohistory, this expanded edition features a new essay offering a narrative of his continuing professional and personal encounters, since 1962, with this enduring native community. -- ‡c From back cover.

Book The Potawatomi Indians

    Book Details:
  • Author : Otho Winger
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-06-23
  • ISBN : 9780359747511
  • Pages : 76 pages

Download or read book The Potawatomi Indians written by Otho Winger and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-23 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recounts the history of the Potawatomi Native American tribe, from their early origins in Michigan near the western great lakes, to their most prominent appearances in history. Written by Otho Winger, a historian whose focus was upon the Native Americans, this book concerns Potawatomi history ranging back centuries. It detailing the tribes role in conflicts with incipient settlers, wherein the tribe's lands were pushed westerly. After the initial loss of lands, the European settlers represented by the United States offered to relocate the tribe to reservations hundreds of miles away in Kansas or Nebraska. While some accepted these terms, others managed to stay in Michigan or departed elsewhere. Despite such setbacks, the Potawatomi retained their pride, dignity and culture; this book, written in the 1930s, includes photographs of historic sights pertinent to the tribal history, and profiles of the greatest chieftains whose leadership allowed the tribe to flourish and strengthen its identity.

Book Imprints

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  • Author : John N. Low
  • Publisher : MSU Press
  • Release : 2016-02-01
  • ISBN : 1628952466
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Imprints written by John N. Low and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians has been a part of Chicago since its founding. In very public expressions of indigeneity, they have refused to hide in plain sight or assimilate. Instead, throughout the city’s history, the Pokagon Potawatomi Indians have openly and aggressively expressed their refusal to be marginalized or forgotten—and in doing so, they have contributed to the fabric and history of the city. Imprints: The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians and the City of Chicago examines the ways some Pokagon Potawatomi tribal members have maintained a distinct Native identity, their rejection of assimilation into the mainstream, and their desire for inclusion in the larger contemporary society without forfeiting their “Indianness.” Mindful that contact is never a one-way street, Low also examines the ways in which experiences in Chicago have influenced the Pokagon Potawatomi. Imprints continues the recent scholarship on the urban Indian experience before as well as after World War II.

Book The Potawatomi

Download or read book The Potawatomi written by James A. Clifton and published by Facts On File. This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history, changing fortunes, and current situation of the Potawatomi Indians. Includes a picture essay on their crafts.

Book Rising Up from Indian Country

Download or read book Rising Up from Indian Country written by Ann Durkin Keating and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1812, under threat from the Potawatomi, Captain Nathan Heald began the evacuation of ninety-four people from the isolated outpost of Fort Dearborn to Fort Wayne. The group included several dozen soldiers, as well as nine women and eighteen children. After traveling only a mile and a half, they were attacked by five hundred Potawatomi warriors. In under an hour, fifty-two members of Heald’s party were killed, and the rest were taken prisoner; the Potawatomi then burned Fort Dearborn before returning to their villages. These events are now seen as a foundational moment in Chicago’s storied past. With Rising up from Indian Country, noted historian Ann Durkin Keating richly recounts the Battle of Fort Dearborn while situating it within the context of several wider histories that span the nearly four decades between the 1795 Treaty of Greenville, in which Native Americans gave up a square mile at the mouth of the Chicago River, and the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, in which the American government and the Potawatomi exchanged five million acres of land west of the Mississippi River for a tract of the same size in northeast Illinois and southeast Wisconsin. In the first book devoted entirely to this crucial period, Keating tells a story not only of military conquest but of the lives of people on all sides of the conflict. She highlights such figures as Jean Baptiste Point de Sable and John Kinzie and demonstrates that early Chicago was a place of cross-cultural reliance among the French, the Americans, and the Native Americans. Published to commemorate the bicentennial of the Battle of Fort Dearborn, this gripping account of the birth of Chicago will become required reading for anyone seeking to understand the city and its complex origins.

Book The Last Blackrobe of Indiana and the Potawatomi Trail of Death

Download or read book The Last Blackrobe of Indiana and the Potawatomi Trail of Death written by John William McMullen and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Roman: Unparalleled Outrage comes a true story of a French attorney-turned missionary priest, Benjamin Petit, and his mission to the Diocese of Vincennes, Indiana. Under the urging of Bishop Simon Brute, Petit joined the northern Indiana Potawatomi tribes in 1837, a year before their forced removal west. McMullen retells the story of Petit, who traveled with the Potawatomi and became part of their story. Of all the names connected with this crime, there is one, Father Benjamin Petit, the Christian martyr, which stands like a star in the firmament, growing brighter and it will shine on through ages to come.Benjamin Stuart John William McMullen, a native of Vincennes, Indiana, holds a Masters Degree in Theological Studies from Saint Meinrad School of Theology in Indiana. He is a Third Order Benedictine Oblate; a member of the Thomas More Society of Southwestern Indiana; and a member of the Holy Cross Historical Society of Notre Dame, Indiana. He is a Theology Instructor at Mater Dei High School in Evansville, Indiana, and an adjunct Philosophy Professor at Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana. McMullen has written numerous articles on religion and politics, a collection of short stories, and five previous novels: ROMAN: Unparalleled Outrage; Defector From Hell; Utopia Revisited; 2084: Tomorrow is Today; and Poor Souls. He is currently working on another novel. He resides in Evansville with his wife and children.

Book O g   m  w kw   Mit i gw   k    Queen of the Woods

Download or read book O g m w kw Mit i gw k Queen of the Woods written by Simon Pokagon and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon Pokagon, the son of tribal patriarch Leopold Pokagon, was a talented writer, advocate for the Pokagon Potawatomi community, and tireless self-promoter. In 1899, shorty after his death, Pokagon''s novel Ogimawkwe Mitigwaki (Queen of the Woods)-only the second ever published by an American Indian-appeared. It was intended to be a testimonial to the traditions, stability, and continuity of the Potawatomi in a rapidly changing world. Read today, Queen of the Woods is evidence of the author''s desire to mark the cultural, political, and social landscapes with a memorial to the past.

Book Gathering the Potawatomi Nation

Download or read book Gathering the Potawatomi Nation written by Christopher Wetzel and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, the Potawatomis, once concentrated around southern Lake Michigan, increasingly dispersed into nine bands across four states, two countries, and a thousand miles. How is it, author Christopher Wetzel asks, that these scattered people, with different characteristics and traditions cultivated over two centuries, have reclaimed their common cultural heritage in recent years as the Potawatomi Nation? And why a “nation”—not a band or a tribe—in an age when nations seem increasingly impermanent? Gathering the Potawatomi Nation explores the recent invigoration of Potawatomi nationhood, looks at how marginalized communities adapt to social change, and reveals the critical role that culture plays in connecting the two. Wetzel’s perspective on recent developments in the struggle for indigenous sovereignty goes far beyond current political, legal, and economic explanations. Focusing on the specific mechanisms through which the Potawatomi Nation has been reimagined, “national brokers,” he finds, are keys to the process, traveling between the bands, sharing information, and encouraging tribal members to work together as a nation. Language revitalization programs are critical because they promote the exchange of specific cultural knowledge, affirm the value of collective enterprise, and remind people of their place in a larger national community. At the annual Gathering of the Potawatomi Nation, participants draw on this common cultural knowledge to integrate the multiple meanings of being Potawatomi. Fittingly, the Potawatomis themselves have the last word in this book: members respond directly to Wetzel’s study, providing readers with a unique opportunity to witness the conversations that shape the ever-evolving Potawatomi Nation. Combining social and cultural history with firsthand observations, Gathering the Potawatomi Nation advances both scholarly and popular dialogues about Native nationhood. Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Book The Indian World of George Washington

Download or read book The Indian World of George Washington written by Colin Gordon Calloway and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An authoritative, sweeping, and fresh new biography of the nation's first president, Colin G. Calloway's book reveals fully the dimensions and depths of George Washington's relations with the First Americans."--Provided by publisher.

Book Indian Affairs

Download or read book Indian Affairs written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Potawatamie of Wisconsin

Download or read book The Potawatamie of Wisconsin written by Damon Mayrl and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2002-12-15 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the origins, social structure, spiritual beliefs, and daily life of the Potawatomi, as well as examining their contributions to American culture.