Gathering the Potawatomi Nation: Revitalization and Identity Chickasaw two countries

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Westerman reflects on history and family from a unique perspective

written at the turn of the twentieth century

Despite the vast cultural and geographic diversity of the region he explores

Gathering the Potawatomi Nation: Revitalization and Identity Chickasaw two countriesFollowing 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