How to Use Potawatomi in a Sentence

Potawatomi

noun
  • Visitors can bring their own boat or rent one at the Potawatomi Inn front desk.
    — Robert Annis, Midwest Living, 19 Jan. 2026
  • That group is now known as the Citizen Band Potawatomi.
    — J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Each copy was written on birch bark leaves in honor of Potawatomi tradition.
    — Suzanne Le Mignot, CBS News, 27 June 2026
  • The busts featured a pattern inspired by Potawatomi textiles.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Mothers with babies on their backs set down their heavy baskets for a bit, soothing their children with soft words in Potawatomi.
    — Literary Hub, 26 May 2026
  • The Potawatomi losses are unknown but were certainly far fewer.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The Potawatomi Nation originates from the Great Lakes area up north.
    — J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Long before that, the land was home to the Potawatomi and Winnebago tribes, whose connection to the area can still be felt.
    — Karthika Gupta, Travel + Leisure, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Joshua Arce, a citizen of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, agrees.
    — Matt Alderton, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Some Menominee officials have said their ancestors had lived in the Kenosha area before Potawatomi.
    — Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The treaty ended up displacing Potawatomi, Chippewa, Kickapoo and Odawa tribes.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Each tribe had a specific responsibility and the Potawatomi’s role was as the Keepers of the Fire.
    — J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2025
  • More local to Wisconsin, the Citizen Potawatomi Nation calls the April full moon the maple sugar moon.
    — Caden Perry, jsonline.com, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The Potawatomi Casino in Milwaukee opened its onsite sportsbook in May 2024.
    — Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Community elders grew up with stories of the grounds but did not have any proof of their existence until Colquitt Anderson recently found the Potawatomi maps.
    — Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The exhibition was shaped by an advisory committee of Ojibwe, Ottawa, and Potawatomi artists.
    — Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • That includes a claim Yang used funds from investors to gamble millions of dollars at Milwaukee's Potawatomi Casino Hotel.
    — Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Representatives of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation couldn’t be reached to comment on the tribe’s interest in the site nor its specific plans for the site if the bill passes.
    — Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 14 Mar. 2026
  • The historic Potawatomi Inn, with 126 guest rooms plus cabins on the shore of Lake James, is a popular spot, especially with families.
    — Robert Annis, Midwest Living, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Many of the examples are stark, like the Potawatomi Nation which had negotiated with the federal government in hopes of staying in their homelands in the upper Midwest.
    — Brieanna J. Frank, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Many of the examples are stark, like the Potawatomi Nation which had negotiated with the federal government in hopes of staying in their homelands in the upper Midwest.
    — Chris Quintana, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Forest County Potawatomi Chairman Brooks Boyd said the shutdown is not causing any meaningful impacts to tribal services at the moment.
    — Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Some Potawatomi fled the federal relocation area back to their native land, establishing a reservation in Fulton, Michigan.
    — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Potawatomi philosopher Kyle Whyte theorizes settler colonialism as a form of environmental injustice.
    — JSTOR Daily, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Originally created by the Indigenous Potawatomi people, the footpath takes walkers past historic estates, modern homes, and lovely lakeshore vistas.
    — Katy Spratte Joyce, Travel + Leisure, 30 May 2026
  • Also on Monday, the first day of Indigenous Biz Con was held at the Potawatomi Hotel and Casino in Milwaukee.
    — Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 15 Oct. 2025
  • As a member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation on your mothers side and also with Mexican heritage from your father, how have both cultures shaped your approach to food and community?
    — J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The family's hope for a political solution has been renewed after Illinois recently returned land to the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation.
    — Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Pyet DeSpain, a Kansas City native and PBS food show host, is a member of the Potawatomi Nation and has Mexican roots.
    — Mara Williams, Kansas City Star, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Tribal nations with community centers in Milwaukee, such as Potawatomi, Oneida and Ho-Chunk, mobilized to assist tribal members who were affected.
    — Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 25 Aug. 2025

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