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Potawatomi References
Here are some materials on the Potawatomi people, in print and on the web. They may be useful if you are working on a term paper or just for your general reading. There are other lists of references on our nizhokmake'wen help or mzenegenek books page.
Books
These books should be available at your local library or through the Interlibrary loan program.
Susan Campbell and Shirley Willard. Potawatomi Trail of
Death: Indiana to Kansas - 1838
A compilation of original documents from the time of the Removal
(including the complete journal of Father Benjamin
Marie Petit), drawings by George Winter, who
documented the Removal both in picture and word,
newly-transcribed lists of those who were removed
(taken from original microfilm), a new map, and
articles written by descendants.
James Clifton. The Pokagons, 1683-1983: Catholic
Potawatomi of the St. Joseph River Valley
The history of the Pokagon Band of southwest Michigan, the Potawatomis who
were officially permitted to stay in their homeland
James Clifton. The Potawatomi
Suitable for readers from the middle grades through adult.
James Clifton. The Prairie People, Continuity and Change
in Potawatomi Indian Culture 1665-1965
Long, scholarly, and very well written. Excellent
bibliography.
R. David Edmonds. Kinsmen Through Time, An annotated Bibliography of Potawatomi History. The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Metuchen, N. J., 1987.
A wonderful resource for serious researchers
R. David Edmonds. Potawatomis -- Keepers of the Fire. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman OK, 1978
Ruth Landes. Prairie Potawatomi: Tradition and Ritual in
the Twentieth Century.
About Potawatomi traditional religions in the late
1930's.
Daniel McDonald. Removal of the Pottawattomie Indians from Northern Indiana. Plymouth, Ind., D. McDonald & Co., 1899.
Irving McKee. The Trail of Death: Letters of Benjamin Marie Petit. Indiana Historical Society, 1941.
Joseph Francis Murphy, OSB. Potawatomi Indians of the
West: Origins of the Citizen Band. Citizen Band Potawatomi Tribe, Shawnee,
OK, 1988.
History of the Citizen Nation Potawatomi, whose tribal headquarters are in
Shawnee, Oklahoma
George Winter. The Journals and Indian Paintings of
George Winter
Contains Winter's account of a council with government agents and a visit to
a Potawatomi camp just prior to an 1837 emigration to Kansas, as well as some of
his portraits of Potawatomis
Articles
Copies of articles listed here can also be obtained through the Interlibrary Loan program, but it takes a while. Quite a while.
J. C. Douglas. "Journal of an Emigrating Party of
Pottawattomie Indians, 1838", in Indiana Magazine of History, 1925,
Vol. 21, P. 315-336.
Journal of the Trail of Death, kept for Judge Polke, the man who led
it.
Fulton County Historical Society Quarterly, 53 (Fall 1983),"Potawatomi Attend Trail of Courage." pp. 3-31.
__________________________, 69 (Fall& Winter 1988, Spring 1989), "Trail of Courage" and "Trail of Death" pp.62-206.
Gail Jahoda. "Apostle to the People of Fire," pp.189-208 in The Trail of Tears. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1975.
Dwight L. Smith, ed. "A Continuation of the Journal of an Emigrating Party of Pottawatomi Indians, 1838." Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 45, pp. 393-408.
Dwight L. Smith, ed. "Jacob Hull's Detachment of the Potawatomi Emigration 1838." Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 45, pp. 285-288.
Benjamin F. Stuart. "The Deportation of Menominee and his Tribe of Pottawattomi Indians." Indiana Magazine of History, 18 (September, 1922), pp. 255-65.
Videotape
On the Web
Potawatomi History Here is a detailed history on line.
Here are the websites of the Potawatomi bands, repeated from the nIshnabe'k the People section home page:
Dr. David A Baerreis,
"The Great Lakes Project: The Geographic Location of Potawatomi Bands:
1795-1846 With a consideration of the earlier habitat and migrations of
the Potawatomi and other Indian occupations on lands ceded to the United States
by the Potawatomi Indians"
Contains treaty information, and brief historical notes related to the
subject of the study
Simon Pokagon was a writer and lecturer who worked in the late nineteenth and very early twentieth century. The son of Leopold Pokagon, founder of the Pokagon band, and chief of the band himself, he was a noted lecturer and writer who expressed the Native American issues, problems and viewpoints of his day elegantly and with wry humor. The University of Virginia has brought several of his published essays to the web, along with a long list of other writings by and about Native Americans.
William
Elsey Connelley, "The Prairie Band of Pottawattomie
Indians"
An essay published in 1918, on our website, it tells the story of the Prairie
Band's unsuccessful fight to keep their reservation intact.
Gary
Mitchell, Stories of the Potawatomi People
A complete book, on our website; Gary Mitchell is the Prairie Band historian,
and his book is a history of the Prairie Band told from a tribal perspective.
The chapters on modern Potawatomi people and issues are particularly
valuable.
See the history section for more materials on our website.
National Archives Microfilms
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