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Stories of the Potawatomi People
CONTENTS

New: October 2007

  • Potawatomi War Veterans
  • Potawatomi Reservation Visitors: Don Bartlette, Billy Mills, Floyd Westerman,
    Oren Lyons, Howard Ranier, David Lester
  • Team Kansas Successful at 2006 Indigenous Games
  • John Echohawk Speaks on Critical Issue: Native American Rights Fund
  • Native Parenting Conference calls for return to values, tradition
  • Gambling Arrives & Other Stories!
  • Book Review for News from Indian Country:
  • Apple Orchards Making a Comeback on Potawatomi Rez
  • Jerry Tuckwin, teacher, mentor, coach
  • 2007 Queen of Courts - Tara Mitchell
  • Potawatomi Pow-Wow Trail: Potawatomi Princess 2002, Tara Mitchell
  • "Columbine Style" Attack Averted at Royal Valley High School
  • Sometimes you run into interesting people on the road of life
  • Potawatomi preserve language
  • A Tribal member struggles with painting and life: Clifford Knoxsah
  • Potawatomi Boarding Schools
  • Modern day war experience: Prairie Band Potawatomi
  • National Museum of the American Indian Museum Opening
  • Potawatomi Writer: Marty Kreipe De Montano
  • Potawatomi Nation gathers for the third year, 1996

    • Forward Gary Mitchell
    1634 "Potawatomis once part of tribal trio"
    Map: The General Migration Patterns migration of the Potawatomi Indians
    1700s "Europeans' ambitions changed world"

    Pequano "Potawatomi villages and the emergence of leaders"
    A Story of a Potawatomi Village village
    Map: Migration Patterns of the Prairie Band migration Prairie Band of Potawatomi Indians
    1800s "Outsiders influenced tribes"

    1823 "Removal was 'Blackest Chapter'"
    A Picture Portfolio of Potawatomi People, Past and Present Photographs
    1835 "Missouri became just a stop for the Potawatomis"

    1839 "Migration continues to Iowa, Kansas"
    Map: Potawatomi lands while in map Council Bluffs, Iowa, 1837
    1846 "Tribes' next stop: Kansas Territory"

    1854 "Settlers kept Indians in limbo"

    1861 "Outsiders' interests influence split"
    A.T.S.F. Railroad bond used to purchase Railroad bond Potawatomi lands in the 1860s
    1867 "Potawatomi bands went separate ways"

    1873 "Potawatomis lose land to corruption"

    1881 "Outsiders invade on reservation"

    1892 "Allotments ended traditions"

    1892 "Allotments ended traditions, part two"

    1929 "Depression hit reservations, too"

    1930s "Indians made do during Depression"

    1934 "Potawatomis never accepted government forced upon them"

    1937 "Governing act went contrary to tradition"

    1941 "Potawatomi contributions to World War II"

    1944 "Memories of the war finally told"
    A Picture Portfolio of Potawatomi People, Past and Present Photographs
    1946 "Debate, dissent continue"

    1947 "Indians had no taste for politics"
    A Picture Portfolio of Potawatomi People, Past and Present Photographs
    1950s "1950s brought more problems"
    A Picture Portfolio of Potawatomi People, Past and Present Photographs
    1960s "Potawatomi fought to keep tribe intact"
    A Picture Portfolio of Potawatomi People, Past and Present Photographs
    1966 "Vietnam touched Indians, too"

    1969 "Vietnam wounds are healing"

    1960s "Wahwassuck: a real chief"

    1972 "Vietnam veterans returned to same life"

    1970s "More broken promises fueled unrest in 70s"
    A Picture Portfolio of Potawatomi People, Past and Present Photographs
    1970s "BIA's paternalism continues to rob Indians"
    A Picture Portfolio of Potawatomi People, Past and Present Photographs
    1977 "Bureacracy leaves less for programs to help"

    Sports "Many rallied 'round sports"

    1980s "Gaming gave tribes more self-reliance"

    1987 "Road Program succeeds, fails"
    Mitchell "Mitchell serves next generation of the Potawatomi"
    today "Tribe always first on cut list"

    today "Reservation faces economic challenge"

    today "Taxation issues abound"

    Friends "Friendships surpass historical conflicts"

    Teaching "Teach your children"

    today "A chance to repay Indian people"

    1995 "Leaders are like eagles"
    Ike "An Indian Reservation's greatest natural resource"

    1995 "It wasn't a time to slow dance in the fast lane"

    1996 "Sac and Fox dedicate tribal building, museum"

    obligation "It's a tribal obligation to preserve the past"

    repeats "History that repeats is not always good in Indian Country"
    lost "All is not lost in Indian country"
    A Picture Portfolio of Potawatomi People, Past and Present Photographs
    1996 "Native languages go silent"

    1997 Potawatomis Today

    Conclusion

    Bibliography/Further Reading

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