Articles related to "Potawatomi"



Black Hawk and White Settlement
While other Indian leaders accepted displacement, Black Hawk held his ground and refused to budge...
• black hawk • sauk • saukenuk • john reynolds • white cloud

Midewiwin
The Grand Medicine Society was created to share and protect the sum total of medicinal philosophy among the Great Lakes tribes.
• midewiwin • grand medicine society • ojibway • great lakes tribes • potawatomi

Plainfield, Our Town
Hoosier Hannah takes us on a tour of Plainfield, her home town in Hendricks Country, Indiana. Once home to the Miami, Potawatomi, Shawnee, and Delaware tribes, we see how Quakers moved in from North Carolina to settle and farm in the area. We see the traditional Old Settlers Picnic, the Keeley Institute, and enjoy Plainfield’s tree-canopied streets.
• hoosier hannah • plainfield • our town • hendricks county • indiana

Black Hawk's Race to the River
His peace overtures rejected, Black Hawk now waged war against the Amercans through the summer of 1832.
• black hawk • sauk • stillman's run • battle of wisconsin heights • isaiah stillman

Tecumseh's Mission
Having already set out on his mission of unification, Tecumseh now sought to establish a base of operations to serve as the capital of his new nation.
• tecumseh • tenskwatawa • prophetstown • william henry harrison • shawnee

The Confederacy of Little Turtle
Organizing a loose alliance of Indian tribes, Miami Chief Little Turtle became the greatest threat to American dominance in the Northwest territories.
• little turtle • michikinikwa • miami indians • chippewa • ottawa

Americas Black West, part 1
Esteban Dorantes, around 1527, looks for the Seven Cities of Gold in Arizona and New Mexico. In the late 1700s Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable establishes a fur trading business on the Chicago River. In 1804, York as the slave of William Clark travels westward with the Corps of Discovery. James Beckwourth, fur trapper and mountain man, becomes a member of a Crow Indian band. Benjamin Singleton, following the Civil War, endorses movement of freed blacks to Kansas.
• nicodemus • esteban dorantes • jean baptiste pointe du sable • york • william clark

Census Rolls on Microfilm
Names of tribes with census records on microfilm (other than the Cherokee rolls outlined in the aricle of July 6) and a link to the microfilm numbers for those tribes.
• census • microfilm • tribes • tribal rolls • arapaho

Myth and Folklore: Jack-in-the-Pulpit
If anything looks like something the deserves some myth and folklore, it's Jack-in-the-Pulpit. It's got that mythical, otherworldly thing going on, what with its spike of small flowers stuck in the middle of that greenish-purple spathe.
• myth and folklore: jack-in-the-pulpit • gregg m. pasterick • wildflowers of north america • botany • ecology

THE ONCE VAST INDIAN TERRITORY
In the 1820s, white settlers in the United States demanded the government move the native Eastern Indian tribes off their land and relocate them in the unlivable Great American Desert.
• indians • kansas • great plains • great american desert • caddoan

Music at Summerfest Milwaukee WI
Summerfest is a music festival that features 700 bands on 11 stages over and 11 day period in summer. Stroll scenic lake front grounds for diverse entertainment.
• milwaukee festival • summerfest • summer lake front • wisconsin event • music on lake michigan

Pet Friendly Hotels Milwaukee WI
Milwaukee is a historic city on Lake Michigan, featuring festivals, Harley Davidson, Bingo, fine food and beer. Pet friendly hotels welcome dogs and cats to travel along.
• pet friendly hotels • travel with pets • milwaukee wisconsin • best hotels • beer city


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