members of the Anishinabe confederacy, they entered Wisconsin in the 1650's, and built the village of Mitchigami in Door County as well as about 50 others along southern shores of the Great Lakes; today ca. 1,153 Wisconsin members possess 12,000 acres in Forest Co. while others are located in Kansas.

The Wisconsin Historical Society has manuscripts related to this topic. See the catalog description of the Potawatomi Indian Treaties for details. See also the Potawatomi Memorial Pole Photographs. See also the Alphonse Gerend Native American Photograph Albums.

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[Source: Tribal home page at http://www.fcpotawatomi.com/; Loew, Patty. Indian Nations of Wisconsin (Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2001).]