Living in the Midwest Potawatomi's pretty much ruled the roost in the beloved tri-state area of Lake Michigan and finding a book that death with the displacement of the Potawatomi's is difficult. This tribe was the ,out loyal to New France and supported them in Every way in their numerous wars with the Red Devils of England as they journeyed far t the East and South to fight with their fellow Indians and French crown. S the French fortunes died the Potawatomi's would eventually fight for the British crown in resisting American expansion and the book called "Potawatomi's Keepers Of The Fire" is new the best historical written records of the Potawatomi Indians". 
This book covers this tribes movement from Michigan homelands to the Green Bay Area as Iroquois expansion put pressure on many tribes to settle onto new homelands. This is a tribe that tried to hang on to old ways but the lure of trade goods from both English and the French evaporated much of their tradition. This book goes through the various wars this tribe had with the Fox tribe and other Indians and their wars of assistance to the French empire including their participation with destruction of Chickasaw strongholds in the Mississippi valley and with the Huron in the Detroit area. The Potawatomi's were a tribe that got around in the Midwest. The Potawatomi's were also I flue tail in the defeat of General Braddock early in in the French and Indian war and they tried their best to retain some diversity on North America playing European empires against each other to best of their ability.
As author David Edmonds points out the Potawatomi's were involved in many major battles in the Midwest in American history from Pontiac's rebellion to Tecumseh's prophecy wars as they lent all they could to stop English and American encroachment on the old Northwest. By the time of the Black Hawk War the Potawatomi's knew it was best to avoid confrontation with the US army and despite their aid and neutrality this war against the Sac and Fox Indians in Illinois would soon be used to justify removing and pressuring all Indians to sell their lands and make treaties moving West. The end of this book covers the residence of many Potawatomi in trying to avoid and hideout on ancestral lands ignoring g the demands of the US government to move. The pressure of population migration and squatters setting up farms all over Northwest Indiana and Central Illinois is what eventually made this people finally decide to move. It was best for retaining their cultures for the Potawatomi's to move away from this influx of settlers streaming from the East and Europe and the land cessions were a bitter part of their history as they sold it for pennies an acre.
This book covers this tribes movement from Michigan homelands to the Green Bay Area as Iroquois expansion put pressure on many tribes to settle onto new homelands. This is a tribe that tried to hang on to old ways but the lure of trade goods from both English and the French evaporated much of their tradition. This book goes through the various wars this tribe had with the Fox tribe and other Indians and their wars of assistance to the French empire including their participation with destruction of Chickasaw strongholds in the Mississippi valley and with the Huron in the Detroit area. The Potawatomi's were a tribe that got around in the Midwest. The Potawatomi's were also I flue tail in the defeat of General Braddock early in in the French and Indian war and they tried their best to retain some diversity on North America playing European empires against each other to best of their ability.
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