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An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders,...
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Rising above the countryside of Wood County, Wisconsin, Powers Bluff is a large outcrop of quartzite rock that resisted the glaciers that flattened the surrounding countryside. It is an appropriate symbol for the Native people who once lived on its slopes, quietly resisting social forces that would have crushed and eroded their culture. A large band of Potawatomi, many returnees from the Kansas Prairie Band Potawatomi reservation, established the...
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"Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining thousands of acres of their homeland in what is now Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Their success rested partly on their roles as sellers of natural resources and buyers of trade goods, which made them key players in the political economy of plunder that drove white settlement and U.S. development in the Old Northwest. But, as Michael Witgen demonstrates, the credit for Native persistence...
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Civilization of the American Indian volume 145
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[1978]
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xii, 367 pages, 20 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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Bulletin of the Public Museum of the city of Milwaukee volume 19, no. 3
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1962.
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105-174 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm.
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English
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[2015]
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xiii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Following the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, the Potawatomis, once concentrated around southern Lake Michigan, increasingly dispersed into nine bands across four states, two countries, and a thousand miles. How is it, author Christopher Wetzel asks, that these scattered people, with different characteristics and traditions cultivated over two centuries, have reclaimed their common cultural heritage in recent years as the Potawatomi Nation? And why a "nation"--Not...
19) The Potawatomi
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[2003]
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24 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 22 cm.
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English
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Provides an overview of the past and present lives of the Potawatomi people, covering their homes, customs and beliefs, government, and more.
20) The Potawatomi
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[1997]
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63 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 23 cm.
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English
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Describes the history and customs of the Potawatomi people.
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