By: Lawrence, Terri, Andrew

Potawatomi (Pottawatomie)

They lived in 7 states and 2 country's.They lived in a long house.Igloo’s, beach, teepee, grass, wig man frame,

mud.

Location

The adpapted people wore dress, wrinkled short, red blue clothing, buffalo robes, shorts, and horse when they fighted.

Igloo’s, beacheds, teepee’s, long house, grass, wigman frame, mud.

Nuts and berry’s deer mouse, rice, flour, bread, chesnuts, meat.

They trade there skin, painted there faces,painted themseles.

Environment

Potawatomi Pictures!

FoodThey ate: corn, beans, squash, tobacco, rice, berries,elk,wild birds,fish,maple syrup.

ShelterLonghouses and Wigwams.

Roles : Children Men and WomenBetween ages 8-12 you had to help with crops,

help hunt which you could only do at 10 or older, you would help collect seafood, setting up the tents was a job for a boy 9 or older. Girls were involved in the cooking and washing clothes

Women were framers and they took care of there children and cook.

Men were hunters and sometimes they went to the war.

All Men and Women did story telling, artwork, music, and traitional medicine.

StructurePotawatomi were organized into clans. No

person could marry a person of the same clan especially since the clans were linked by their fathers descendents.

Traditionally the Potawatomi did not have a chief of the entire tribe. They may have a village leader who may select a single man to speak for them with a single voice.

Clothing

They would use bird feathers as trophies of war, hair pins. The feathers symbolized bravery.

In winter, men wore breechcloths, leggings, and deerskin shirts. In the summer the kids don’t wear clothing. In the winter they all wear moccasins and in the summer only the adult wear moccasins.

HOW POTAWATOMI ADAPTED WITH THE EUROPEAN Established close political, economic, and

kinship ties with the French. French fur traders were welcomed into the

Potawatomi villages, where their union with Potawatomi women produced growing numbers of mixed-blood, or Métis, children.

Allied with the French during the French and Indian War

SkillsHuntingFishingGathering of natural plant foods.