Smokey McKinney's Prairie Band

(Click on words to listen to them.)

Greetings, friend!
I am glad to see you.
Thank you for your visit here.

Here, as promised, are the Potawatomi Basic Greeting Variations and Alternative Responses. - sm

Welcome!

Our website reflects our desire to strengthen and revitalize the use of the Prairie Band Potawatomi language, as well as to share documents and resources on Potawatomi history and culture. We gear our site to members of our tribe, but you are welcome, whatever your heritage, as long as you are respectful of our language and traditions.

Our website is divided into five sections:

• bode'wadmimo speak Potawatomi our Potawatomi language resources, including our orthography, dictionary with sound files to aid in your pronunciation, and on line documents in the Potawatomi language
• nIshnabe'k The People history, culture, the People, genealogy, and modern Potawatomi life
• mzenegenek books. our collection of hypertexts, a library for you to browse
• nizhokmake'wen resources and help lists of resources, on and off the web; our "helper" pages
• BWAKA about us

Perhaps this is a good place for a few disclaimers.

If this is your first visit, our tips on how to view our site may be helpful. It explains the icons we use and gives other technical aids to exploring the site.

Iwgwien! (Thanks lots!) to the Kansas Humanities Council, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, who has provided partial funding for this project. We also received an additional grant from KHC which enabled us to add new material to our language section.

Our website is located on the Kansas Heritage Server, which is devoted to digitally preserving Kansas' past, giving future generations the opportunity to learn about and from family and local history.

Newer Stuff!

• Susan Campbell first book of poetry, Stained Glass Windows, a 60-page chapbook, is a compilation of mostly American Indian (Potawatomi) poems, with some non-denominational Christian poetry, and includes "Cage Nokmisen" and "She Who Prays...Always."

• Gary Mitchell has added items at Stories of the Potawatomi People

• Additions made to the booklist and to the muster rolls, with additional corrections to links on various pages. See Potowatomi Trail of Death.

• We added excerpts from the Gospel According to Luke as translated into Potawatomi by the Jesuit missionaries and compiled by Maurice Gailland, S.J. to the website. This work was funded by a Kansas Humanities Council grant.

• We have added references to our reference page, including some websites about Potawatomi history and culture that you might find useful, or simply enjoy. The Walpole Island website address has been added here as well as on the Nishnabe'k/ the People home page.

• Susan Campbell expanded her genealogy sources on the web. See both her Potawatomi Genealogy Sources and her Family Trees pages.

For earlier changes to the site, see our revisions page. An outline of site contents is also available.

The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation official website. It has information on our Potawatomi Tribe and reservation; on the tribal council and tribal programs, including phone numbers; on the history of the tribe and some of our stories; and about the casino on the reservation. The brochure that is given to visitors at the reservation is also on line.

We hope you find these materials useful and enjoy them as much as we have enjoyed making them available to you. If you do, please come back from time to time!

Pama mine' ngoduk! (See you later sometime!)

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