The recent history of the Potawatomi begins in the Great Lakes region of North America. The Citizen Band of Oklahoma and the Prairie Band of Kansas is made up of descendants of Potawatomi from the Great Lakes Area. They were in the United Band of Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomi of the Lakes region. They began being moved further and further from their homeland as the White man moved westward the Native Americans were pushed westward also. Into Iowa and then on to Kansas, and into Oklahoma. There are a vast number of people of Potawatomi ancestry along this migratory path of heartbreak and tears and broken lives.

Trail of Death Removal from IN to KS, presented by the Fulton Co. Indiana Historical Society

Potawatomi Web  Smokey McKinney's

Prairie Band Potawatomi

Native Genealogy History & Language

Huron

Pokagon Band Potawatomi

Potawatomi Treaties

Hannahville

Potawatomi History  Keeper of the Fire

Contempory Native American Issues

Childrens Fables

Our many thanks to Kathy Welch Heidel for creating and maintaining the Potawatomi Tribe site from May 1998 until July 1999.  Her contributions are still accessible here, but because the site is now part of the group Nations of the Sac & Fox Agency, the general links have been moved to the Agency page.

For the convenience of returning visitors, we've kept a page of Kathy's Links in her final format.