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Potawatomi
Location:
The homeland of the Potawatomi includes a region of lower Michigan. They settled upwards to parts of northern Wisconsin and into northern Indiana and central Illinois.
Today the Potawatomi are known as the Citizen Potawatomi Nation retain their cultural roots. There is a historical museum set up called the Potawatomi Museum and Cultural Center located at 5460 Everybody’s Road, Crandon, WI.
Language:
Central Algonquin - very close to Anishinabe and Ottawa.
Traditions:
The Potawatomi ate wild game, fish, wild rice, red oak acorns, and maple syrup. After being pushed out of the hunting ground and into Wisconsin, they learned farming from neighboring tribes and grew corn, beans and squash. The women took care of the field while the men did the hunting. They used birch bark canoes as their main mode of transportation and later domesticated horses as their tribes moved into different regions. Horses were used to hunt buffalo in the roaming grassland.
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