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Potawatomi, n.|pɒtəˈwɒtəmɪ|
Also Pattawatami, Pottiwatomie, Poutouatami, etc.
[Native name.]
a. A member of an Algonquian Indian people located in the Great Lakes region of the northern U.S.A., principally in Michigan and Wisconsin.
b. The language of this people. Also attrib. or as adj.
1698tr. Hennepin's New Discovery i. xxiii. 74 We sent afterwards three Men to buy Provisions in the Village with the Calumet or Pipe of Peace, which the Poutouatami's of the Island had given us. 1722D. Coxe Descr. Carolana 48 The Nations who dwell on this River, are..the Poutouatomis beforemention'd. 1789Deb. Congr. U.S. 25 May (1834) 41 The treaties of Fort Harmar..with the Sachems and warriors of the Wyandot,..Pattiwatima, and Sac nations. 1805J. Wilkinson Let. 12 July in Deb. Congr. U.S. (1852) 10th Congr. 1 Sess. 575 All hopes of the speedy recovery of their prisoners from the hands of the Pattawatamies, being at an end. 1808Governor Harrison Let. 14 Apr. in Deb. Congr. U.S. (1853) 12th Congr. 1 Sess. 1857 A young man from the Delaware towns came to inform me that a Pottawatomie Indian had arrived at the towns. 1835[see Kickapoo]. 1838[see long knife 1]. 1868N.Y. Herald 31 July 5/4 The Senate..ratified treaties with the Potawatamies. 1877L. H. Morgan Anc. Society ii. iv. 105 The Potawattamies have eight gentes of the same name with eight among the Ojibwas. 1927L. Bloomfield in Amer. Speech II. 437/1 She knows only a few words of English, but speaks Ojibwa and Potawatomi fluently, and, I believe, a little Winnebago. 1933― Language 72 The Algonquian family covers the northeastern part of the continent and includes the languages of..the Great Lakes region (Ojibwa, Potawatomi..and so on). 1946E. A. Nida Morphol. p. v, Linguists will readily recognize many of the problems as being drawn from Greek, Latin, French,..Potawatomi, Cherokee, and Navaho. 1965Language XLI. 75 Pike and Erickson's work on Potawatomi..studies the field structures of certain lexical oppositions within given orders of Potawatomi verb affixes. 1972Ibid. XLVIII. 847, 5 c [in a table of five-vowel systems] is given by Hockett for Potawatomi. 1978Maledicta II. 233, I am told that the name [of Waukesha in Wisconsin] is from the Potawatomi word for ‘fox’. 1979Tucson (Arizona) Citizen 20 Sept. (Old Pueblo Suppl.) 3/1 The woman saw the 6-foot-4, 260-pound Potawatomi Indian walking down a Phoenix street. |