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Potawatomi Ethnonyms
{{main, Potawatomi This is a list of various names the Potawatomi have been recorded. Endonyms Neshnabé Neshnabé (without syncope: Eneshenabé), a cognate of Ojibwe ''Anishinaabe'', meaning "Original People." The plural is Neshnabék. Bodéwadmi Bodéwadmi (without syncope: Bodéwademi), a cognate of Ojibwe "''Boodewaadamii''". It means "those who keep/tend the hearth-fire", which in this case refers to the hearth of the Council of Three Fires. The word itself comes from "to keep/tend the hearth-fire", which is "''bodewadm''" (without syncope: "''bodewadem''"; Ojibwe "''boodawaadam''"). The plural is Bodéwadmik. * Oupouteouatamik – Jesuit Relations: 1658, 21, 1858. * Patawatimes – Treaty of Greenville (1795) quoted by Harris, Tour, 249, 1805. * Patawattamies – Turkey Creek treaty (1836) in U. S. Ind. Treaties, 648,1837. * Patawattomies – Hunter, Captivity, 14, 1823. * Pattawatamies – Hamtramck (1790) in Am. St. Papers, Ind. Aff., I, 87, 1832.http://memory.loc. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Potawatomi
The Potawatomi (), also spelled Pottawatomi and Pottawatomie (among many variations), are a Native American tribe of the Great Plains, upper Mississippi River, and western Great Lakes region. They traditionally speak the Potawatomi language, a member of the Algonquian family. They are additionally First Nations in Canada. The Potawatomi call themselves ''Neshnabé'', a cognate of the word ''Anishinaabe''. The Potawatomi are part of a long-term alliance, called the Council of Three Fires, with the Ojibwe and Odawa (Ottawa). In the Council of Three Fires, the Potawatomi are considered the "youngest brother". Their people are referred to in this context as ''Bodéwadmi'', a name that means "keepers of the fire" and refers to the council fire of three peoples. In the 19th century, some bands of Potawatomi were pushed to the west by European/American encroachment. In the 1830s the federal government removed most from their lands east of the Mississippi River to Indian Territo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anishinaabe Language
Ojibwe ( ), also known as Ojibwa ( ), Ojibway, Otchipwe,R. R. Bishop Baraga, 1878''A Theoretical and Practical Grammar of the Otchipwe Language''/ref> Ojibwemowin, or Anishinaabemowin, is an indigenous language of North America of the Algonquian language family.Goddard, Ives, 1979.Bloomfield, Leonard, 1958. The language is characterized by a series of dialects that have local names and frequently local writing systems. There is no single dialect that is considered the most prestigious or most prominent, and no standard writing system that covers all dialects. Dialects of Ojibwemowin are spoken in Canada, from southwestern Quebec, through Ontario, Manitoba and parts of Saskatchewan, with outlying communities in Alberta;Nichols, John, 1980, pp. 1–2. and in the United States, from Michigan to Wisconsin and Minnesota, with a number of communities in North Dakota and Montana, as well as groups that were removed to Kansas and Oklahoma during the Indian Removal period. While th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anishinaabe
The Anishinaabe (alternatively spelled Anishinabe, Anicinape, Nishnaabe, Neshnabé, Anishinaabeg, Anishinabek, Aanishnaabe) are a group of culturally related Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous peoples in the Great Lakes region of Canada and the United States. They include the Ojibwe (including Saulteaux and Oji-Cree), Odawa, Potawatomi, Mississaugas, Nipissing First Nation, Nipissing, and Algonquin peoples. The Anishinaabe speak , or Anishinaabe languages that belong to the Algonquian languages, Algonquian language family. At the time of first contact (anthropology), first contact with Europeans they lived in the Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands, Northeast Woodlands and the Indigenous peoples of the Subarctic, Subarctic, and some have since spread to the Plains Indians, Great Plains. The word means . Another definition is , meaning those who are on the right road or path given to them by the Creator deity, Creator Gitche Manitou, or Great Spirit. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Council Of Three Fires
The Council of Three Fires (in , also known as the People of the Three Fires; the Three Fires Confederacy; or the United Nations of Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi Indians) is a long-standing Anishinaabe alliance of the Ojibwe (or Chippewa), Odawa (or Ottawa), and Potawatomi North American Native tribes. History Originally one people, or a collection of closely related bands, the ethnic identities of Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi developed after the Anishinaabe reached Michilimackinac on their journey westward from the Atlantic coast. Using the Midewiwin scrolls, Potawatomi elder Shup-Shewana dated the formation of the Council of Three Fires to 796 AD at Michilimackinac. In this council, the Ojibwe were addressed as the "Older Brother," the Odawa as the "Middle Brother," and the Potawatomi as the "Younger Brother." Consequently, whenever the three Anishinaabe nations are mentioned in this specific ''and'' consecutive order of Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi, it is an indicato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Treaty Of Greenville
The Treaty of Greenville, also known to Americans as the Treaty with the Wyandots, etc., but formally titled ''A treaty of peace between the United States of America, and the tribes of Indians called the Wyandots, Delawares, Shawanees, Ottawas, Chippewas, Pattawatimas, Miamis, Eel Rivers, Weas, Kickapoos, Piankeshaws, and Kaskaskias'' was a 1795 treaty between the United States and indigenous nations of the Northwest Territory (now Midwestern United States), including the Wyandot and Delaware peoples, that redefined the boundary between indigenous peoples' lands and territory for United States community settlement. It was signed at Fort Greenville, now Greenville, Ohio, on August 3, 1795, following the Native American loss at the Battle of Fallen Timbers a year earlier in August 1794. It ended the Northwest Indian War of 1785-1795 in the Ohio Country of the old Northwest Territory (1787-1803), and limited Indian country to remaining lands of northwestern Ohio, and began t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean François Hamtramck
Jean-François Hamtramck (or John Francis Hamtramck; 1756 – 11 April 1803) was a Canadian-born Continental Army officer during the American Revolutionary War and the Northwest Indian War. In the Revolution, he participated in the Invasion of Quebec, the Sullivan Expedition, and the Siege of Yorktown. In the history of United States expansion into the Northwest Territory, Hamtramck is connected to 18th century forts at modern Midwest cities such as Steubenville, Vincennes, Fort Wayne, and Detroit. The city of Hamtramck, Michigan is named for him. Life and career Hamtramck was born on 1756, in Montreal, Canada (then part of New France). He was the son of Charles David Hamtramck, a Luxembourg-born barber who had immigrated from Trier, Germany, and Canadian Marie Anne Bertin. Hamtramck was baptized in the Catholic Church in August 1756. By the time the American Revolution came to Canada, he was fluent in French, English, German, and Latin. American Revolution Canada When General ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Treaty Of Fort Harmar
The Treaty of Fort Harmar (1789) was a treaty made between the United States and the Haudenosaunee, Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi, Sauk, Wyandot, and Lenape, all Indigenous nations with territorial claims within the European land claim acquired in 1783 by the United States from the Kingdom of Great Britain known as the Northwest Territory. History The Treaty of Fort Harmar was concluded at Fort Harmar in the Northwest Territory on January 9, 1789. National leaders representing the Haudenosaunee, Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi, Sauk, Wyandot, and Lenape met with treaty negotiators from the United States, including Arthur St. Clair, governor of the Northwest Territory, Josiah Harmar, and Richard Butler. Although the treaty was supposed to address issues with two earlier treaties, the 1784 Treaty of Fort Stanwix and the 1785 Treaty of Fort McIntosh, it largely reiterated the earlier terminology, with minor changes. The treaty failed to address the most important grievances of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Maray De La Chauvignerie
Michel Maray de La Chauvignerie (January 24, 1704August 10, 1778), also known as Michel Maray, sieur de la La Chauvignerie, was a French military officer in the Troupes de la Marine and interpreter of Iroquoian languages. Biography Michel Maray de La Chauvignerie was born on January 24, 1704, in Montreal, New France to Sieur Louis Maray de la Chauvignerie, an officer in the Troupes de la Marine, and Catherine Joly. He was baptized in Montreal, New France on September 5, 1704. Together with Louis-Thomas Chabert de Joncaire, La Chauvignerie convinced several Native American tribes to renew their alliance with New France at a banquet in Montreal by singing an Iroquois war song when New France was threatened by an attack from the British in August 1711. In 1736, La Chauvignerie published a list of names from the Ojibwe and other peoples that he had compiled. In June 1755, Lieutenant La Chauvignerie replaced Philippe-Thomas Chabert de Joncaire as the officer in charge of construc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Treaty Of Tippecanoe
The Treaty of Tippecanoe was an agreement between the United States government and Native American Potawatomi tribes in Indiana on October 26, 1832. Treaty On October 26, 1832, the United States government entered negotiations with the Native American tribes of north-western Indiana seeking to purchase their land for white settlement. The United States was represented by three commissioners, former Governor of Indiana Jonathan Jennings, John Wesley Davis and Marks Crume. The United States had already purchased the Miami claim to the region in a previous treaty, and the Pottawatomie were the only natives who still held a claim in the region. The land purchased was most of the northwestern part of the state of Indiana. It was recorded in the treaty as: beginning at a point on Lake Michigan, where the line dividing the States of Indiana and Illinois intersects the saline thence with the margin of said Lake, to the intersection of the southern boundary of a cession made by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1821 Treaty Of Chicago
The Treaty of Chicago may refer to either of two treaties made and signed in the settlement that became Chicago, Illinois between the United States and the Odawa (anglicized Ottawa), Ojibwe (anglicized Chippewa), and Bodéwadmi (anglicized Potawatomi) (collectively, Council of Three Fires) Native American peoples. The first was in 1821 and the second in 1833. Background In 1795, in a then minor part of the Treaty of Greenville, a Native American confederation granted treaty rights to the United States in a six-mile parcel of land at the mouth of the Chicago River. This was followed by the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis, which ceded additional land in the Chicago area, including the Chicago Portage. 1821 Treaty of Chicago The first treaty of Chicago was signed by Michigan Territorial Governor Lewis Cass and Solomon Sibley for the United States and representatives of the Ojibwe, Ottawa, and Potawatomi (Council of Three Fires) on August 29, 1821, and proclaimed on March 25, 182 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algonquin Ethnonyms
This is a list of various names the Algonquins have been recorded. Endonyms Abitibiwinni(k) Namesake of the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Québec, the Abitibiwinni First Nation mostly centred on Pikogan use "Abitibiwinni(k)" in reference to their being situated around Lake Abitibi. '' Abitibi'' means "halfway across the water," combined with ''inini'' meaning "man." *Abitibiwinni(k). — Abitibiwinni First Nation Anishinaabe(g) The most general name for the Algonquins is ''Anishinaabe''. Though several definitions are given for this name, the most common one is "spontaneous men", referring to their creation as being ''ex nihlo'', thus being the "Original men." When syncoped, the name appears as "Nishnaabe". * Anicinàpe(k). — Algonquin roman orthography. * Anishinaabe(g). — Fiero "double vowel" roman orthography. Odishkwaagamii(g) Among the Anishinaabe peoples, the Nipissings and the Algonquins are collectively called ''Odishkwaagamii(g)'' (syncoped as ''Dishkwaagmii(g) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nipissing Ethnonyms
{{main, Nipissing First Nation This is a list of various names the Nipissing have been recorded. Endonyms Anishinaabe(g) The most general name for the Nipissing is ''Anishinaabe''. Though several definitions are given for this name, the most common one is "spontaneous men", referring to their creation as being ''ex nihlo'', thus being the "Original men." When syncoped, the name appears as "Nishnaabe". Nibiinsing The general term for the Nipissing peoples arise from the Anishinaabe word ''Nibii(n)sing'', meaning "at the little water". When the name is syncoped, it can appear as either ''Nbii(n)sing'', ''Mbii(n)sing'' or ''Bii(n)sing''. * Neperinks. — Clinton (1745) in ''New York Documents of Colonial History'', VI, 276, 1855. * Nepesangs. — Pike, ''Expedition'', pt. 1, appendix, 62, 1810. * Nepesinks. — Clinton (1745) in ''New York Documents of Colonial History'', VI, 281, 1855. * Nepessins. — Buchanan, ''North American Indians'', I, 139, 1824. * Nepisin. — Dobbs, ''Hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
