1. The Potawatomi
By: Layla And Azaria

2. Locations The Potawatomi tribe lived by Green Bay.
Some other Potawatomi tribes lived in Wisconsin.

3. The Potawatomi Diet They grew peas, beans, squash, melons, and corn.
They also made flour from Beech nuts.
They picked berries and dug roots of certain plants.
In the late winter they gathered maple sap and made it into sugar.

4. Housing Their houses were usually rounded wigwams.
They were covered with mats or bark.
Wigwams are domed shaped homes made with straws and wheats.

5. Clothing Potawatomi woman wore long deerskin dresses.
Potawatomi men wore breechoth, leggings, and deerskin shirts.
Both genders wore moccasins
Moccasins are slippers or shoes that the Potawatomi wore.

6. The Impact of Europeans
In the 1750’s-1760 the Europeans made contact with the Potawatomi tribe.
When they came the French or Europeans had a war with them for a long time.

7. Beliefs The Potawatomi believed in the great spirit.
The great spirit was nature like trees and plants.
The Potawatomi observed him in all of nature.
Some Potawatomi Indians belonged to the Native American Church.

8. The Traditional Story
The traditional story is about a Potawatomi Indian.
The Indian fell on a turtle without a shell.
Since he felt bad he put two seashells on the turtle to be protected.

9. What the traditional story tells
The traditional story tell you that the turtle is the Great spirit.
It also tells you that they believed in nature.
If you didn’t know that the Potawatomi believed in nature this story would tell you a lot.

10. Bibliography
Deur, Lynne. Nishnawbe a story of Indians in Michigan. Spring Lake, Mich: River Road Publications, Print.

11. Bibliography Here are some of the website names that we got info from.
Potawatomi digital art Museum.com/
Potawatomi History.com/
Potawatomi Nation.com/

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