POTAWATOMI

BELIEFS/CUSTOMS/RITUALS

• Mana bozo founder of religious cult
• Three principal concerns in life, food health and proper valuation of women
• Each community lives on its own reservation
• Used birchbark canoes and dugout canoes for transportation
• Used transportation for trading

TRIBAL ORGANIZATION

• Leader is a chief
• Each tribe had its own government
• Police and services
• Tribe is politically independent
• Everyone has own reservation

GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION

• Lived in wisconsin
• Lived along Lake Michigan
• Seasonal homes
• Animals: horses, dogs, deer
• Temperature was normally warm, not much rainfall

CULTURE

• Speak algonkian language
• Lived in the Great Lakes area
• Lived in wigwam houses
• Hunted, fished amd gathered resources in the summer
• Women wore long deerskin dresses, men wore breechcloths and deer skin shirts

COMMUNICATIONS

• Speak algonkian
• Write in algonkian
• Algonkian is an endangered language
• Were close with the Ojibwe

GENDER ROLES

• Men would hunt and fish
• Men sometimes went to war
• Women would cook and farm
• Women did the childcare
• Both taught children knowledge

HEALTH

• Shamans that operated
• They identified spiritual cases of illness
• They sucked sources of illness out of bodies
• Usually shamans combined spiritual cures with herbal medicines

VOCABULARY

• Reservation-where the community of the tribe live
• Endangered-in danger of non existence
• Chief- leader of the tribe