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The Potawatomi captured every British frontier garrison but the one at Detroit. [5] The Potawatomi nation continued to grow and expanded westward from Detroit, most notably in the development of the St. Joseph villages adjacent to the Miami in southwestern Michigan. The Wisconsin communities continued and moved south along the Lake Michigan ...
The Potawatomi Trail of Death was the forced removal by militia in 1838 of about 859 members of the Potawatomi nation from Indiana to reservation lands in what is now eastern Kansas. The march began at Twin Lakes, Indiana (Myers Lake and Cook Lake, near Plymouth, Indiana ) on November 4, 1838, along the western bank of the Osage River , ending ...
The Greenville Treaty line in Ohio and Indiana Map showing treaties in Indiana. 1899 map of Indian Land cessions in Illinois. During the first half of the 19th century, several treaties were concluded between the United States of America and the Native American tribe of the Potawatomi.
The most well-known resistance effort in Indiana was the forced removal of Chief Menominee and his Yellow River band of Potawatomi in what became known as the Potawatomi Trail of Death in 1838, in which 859 Potawatomi were removed to Kansas and at least forty died on the journey west. The Miami were the last to be removed from Indiana, but ...
Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians (Potawatomi: Pokégnek Bodéwadmik) are a federally recognized Potawatomi-speaking tribe based in southwestern Michigan and northeastern Indiana. Tribal government functions are located in Dowagiac, Michigan. They occupy reservation lands in a total of ten counties in the area.
Aubbeenaubbee was a leader among the Potawatomi in the Lake Maxinkuckee area, and together with Metea led the negotiations in the 1826 Treaty of Mississinewas. [4] He was born in 1760. [5] Aubbeenaubbee Township, Fulton County, Indiana, Potawatomi Indian village known as Aubenaubee in Jackson Township, Elkhart County. [6]
Independently of the Council of Three Fires, the Prairie Band were also signatories to the 1832 Treaty of Tippecanoe (7 Stat. 378) as the Potawatomi Tribe of Indians of the Prairie. In the 1830s, Chief Shab-eh-nay , the leader of tribal residents on 1,300 acres (530 ha) of land in Illinois, went to visit members of his family who had been ...
The Potawatomi in northern Indiana learned of these plans, and immediately called on the Potawatomi of northern Illinois and the Odawa of the Grand River to send aid. They assembled 800 warriors along the St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan) to meet MacArthur's expedition, and acquired supplies of gunpowder from British fur traders.