However, manuscript clerks' records for four churches have been preserved: Potawatomi (1840-1844), Delaware and Mohegan of Kansas (1841-1844, 1848), Shawnee (1844-1854), and Stockbridge of Kansas (1845-1848).
For the period from 1790 to 1845, major sources are these: American Baptist Magazine (and several other titles), 1803-1847; Proceedings, American Indian Missionary Association, 1842-1854; church records for 4 Indian Baptist churches (Potawatomi, Delaware, Shawnee, and Stockbridge), located at Kansas State Historical Society (see Kansas Historical Quarterly, 2 [193], 227-250); Flint Hill Baptist Church, South Carolina, manuscript records, 1792-1845 (microfilm, Furman University Library); William Gammell, History of American Baptist Missions (Boston, 1850); Georgia Analytical Repository, 1802-1803; David Jones, Journal of Two Visits Made to Some Nations of Indians ...
He gave up baseball, married a Potawatomi woman, and took a job in construction.
Coach Pokagon was a big Potawatomi guy who once drove a ball to the wall off of Dave Rozema during tryouts for the Grand Rapids J.C.
Excuse me, but weren't we forgetting the Chippewa branch of my daughters' immediate ancestry, not to mention the thousands of resident Menominees,
Potawatomis, Sauks, Foxes, Winnebagos, and Ottawas who inhabited mid-nineteenth-century Wisconsin, as they had for many hundreds of years?"
Tribes such as the Delawares, Kickapoos, Miamis, Ottawas,
Potawatomis, Sacs and Foxes, and Shawnees brought not only a familiarity with alcohol cultivated by whiskey merchants in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, but also significant financial resources occasioned by federal annuities written into the various removal treaties that brought them to the new Indian Canaan.(14) And contrary to the view that excessive Indian drinking was a biased perception based on white, Victorian complaints and reporting, one need only allow the Indians to speak for themselves.
Richard White discusses how the deadly combination of Iroquois attacks and smallpox epidemics displaced many Native peoples, such as Fox, Sauk, and
Potawatomis, from their traditional homelands, compelling them to take refuge among other war- and disease-stricken tribes.
David Edmunds, The
Potawatomis: Keepers of the Fire (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1978).
Nevertheless, he finds some gems, such as the
Potawatomis' description of their assigned land as "a desert prairie [with] ...
"The annual Pow Wow provides some
Potawatomis the opportunity to make a spectacle of themselves .
In 1712, Ottawa,
Potawatomis, and Illinois warriors attacked those Foxes who had accepted Antoine de La Mothe Cadillac's invitation to settle around newly constructed Fort Detroit.
(10) This usage is evident in the various names applied to the allied Ojibwe, Odawa, and
Potawatomi: the Three Fires Confederacy, the Council of Three Fires, People of the Three Fires, and the United Nation(s) of Chippewa, Ottawa, and
Potawatomi.
McArthur had first planned an expedition against the hostile
Potawatomi villages in southwestern Michigan, but had been forced to give it up because of lack of volunteers, provisions, and naval vessels.
Wisconsin's Indian population includes seven tribes: Ho-Chunk or Winnebago, Menominee, Ojibwe or Chippewa, Oneida,
Potawatomi, Stockbridge-Munsee, and a small group known as the Brothertown Indians.
