Potawatomi facts for kids
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Potawatomi at a rain dance in 1920
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| Total population | |
| 28,000 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 United States (Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Illinois) Canada (Ontario) |
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| Languages | |
| English, Potawatomi | |
| Religion | |
| Catholicism, Methodism, Midewiwin |
The Pottawatomi also spelled Pottawatomie and Potawatomi (among many variations), are a Native American people of the Great Plains, upper Mississippi River, and western Great Lakes region. They traditionally speak the Potawatomi language. That language is part of the Algonquian family. The Potawatomi called themselves Neshnabé, a cognate of the word Anishinaabe. The Potawatomi are part of a long-term friendship, called the Council of Three Fires, with the Ojibwe and Odawa (Ottawa).
Images for kids
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Regalia at the Field Museum in Chicago
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Metea lithograph (1842)
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Ed Pigeon, Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish cultural coordinator and language instructor, with son, 2006
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Rain dance, Kansas, c. 1920
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See also
In Spanish: Potawatomi para niños
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