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The Potawatomi are an Algonquian Native American people of the Great Plains, upper Mississippi River, and western Great Lakes region. Their name is a translation of the Ojibwe word “potawatomink” meaning “people of the place of fire.” In their own language, the Potawatomi refer to themselves as the Nishnabek or “people.”

The Potawatomi were part of a long-term alliance, called the Council of Three Fires, with the Ojibwe and Ottawa, who had common or similar language, manners, and customs. They were early on were estimated to have numbered about 8,000 people.

Their first European contact occurred in 1634 Jean Nicolet arrived at Green Bay, Wisconsin and met a few Potawatomi there. However, at that time the tribe lived in Michigan, so they were probably visiting. In the 1640s, the Iroquois Confederacy of New York began to raid Indian tribes throughout the Great Lakes region to monopolize the regional fur trade. Forced westward the Potawatomi then settled on the Door County Peninsula in Wisconsin. After 30 years of war, relocation, and epidemics of disease, the French estimated there were about 4,000 Potawatomi in 1667.

As the Algonquin tribes began driving the Iroquois back to New York, the Potawatomi moved south to the southern end of Lake Michigan. In 1701, the French built Fort Ponchartrain at Detroit and groups of Potawatomi settled nearby. By 1716 most of the Potawatomi villages were located in between present-day Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Detroit, Michigan.

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The Potawatomi became trading partners and military allies of the French, and when the Fox Indians rose up in Wisconsin against the French between 1712 and 1735, the Potawatomi participated in many battles on the side of the French. They later assisted the French in their wars with the Chickasaw and the Illinois tribes. During the 1760s they expanded into northern Indiana and central Illinois.

When the French and English began to battle each other over control of North American lands, the tribe fought in a series of wars with the French, including King George’s War, in 1746-47 and the French and Indian War from 1754 to 1763. With England’s victory in this war, all French possessions in Canada and the Midwest reverted to British control. Wary of their new colonial overlords, they participated in Ottawa Chief Pontiac’s Rebellion against the British in 1863. The British put down the rebellion in 1866 and afterward established better diplomatic and economic relations with the tribes to prevent any such recurrences.

During the American Revolution, most of the Potawatomi in Illinois remained neutral or even favored the Americans, but their kinsmen in Michigan were more pro-British. The Revolutionary War “officially” ended in 1783 with the Treaty of Paris which placed the western boundary of the United States at the Mississippi River.

The U.S. government then tried to establish a boundary with the Ohio tribes through treaties, but frontiersmen simply ignored them and moved onto native lands. This resulted in a bloody war between the United States and the Ohio Indians, supported by the British, from 1790 to 1794, in which the Potawatomi from Michigan and Indiana participated. The war continued until the Indians were put down by “Mad Anthony” Wayne at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794. In November the British signed the Jay Treaty resolving their differences with the United States and agreed to leave their forts on American territory. The alliance chiefs signed a treaty ceding most of Ohio, which included 240 Potawatomi members. Although the Potawatomi did not surrender any of their lands, they received $1,000 for signing. Afterward, more than 60 of the Potawatomi leaders, who had attended the treaty negotiations at Greenville, Ohio mysteriously got sick and died. The British claimed they had been poisoned by Americans.

Several treaties were signed by the native tribes in the next few years but it wasn’t until the Detroit Treaty was signed in November 1807 that the Potawatomi were required to surrender some of their own land. By this time, the Potawatomi tribal lands included northern Illinois, southeastern Wisconsin, northern Indiana, southern Michigan, and northwestern Ohio.

Afterward, many Potawatomi became followers of Tenskawatawa, the Shawnee Prophet, and his brother Tecumseh, who preached a doctrine of resisting American expansion onto Indian lands. The brothers put together an Indian military alliance that included the Potawatomi that fought on the side of the British during the War of 1812. Once the war started, the Potawatomi defeated the American garrison at Fort Dearborn in Chicago. When the war ended in 1814, the British gave up the lands in Wisconsin and other parts of the Midwest.

Afterward, the Potawatomi fell on hard times and were often unable to hunt and grow enough food to eat. Soon, they had little choice except to cede their land to the United States in exchange for money so they could survive. A number of treaties and land cessions were made in the next several years and the removal of the Potawatomi west of the Mississippi River occurred between 1834 and 1842.

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The Potawatomi were removed in two groups, with the Prairie and Forest Bands from Illinois and Wisconsin moved to Council Bluffs in southwest Iowa, and the Potawatomi of the Woods, which included the Michigan and Indiana bands, relocated to eastern Kansas near Osawatomie. One band of Potawatomi, led by Chief Menominee, refused to leave their homelands at their Twin Lakes village in Indiana. Menominee was soon joined by hundreds of other Potawatomi who did not want to leave and over time, Menominee’s band grew from four wigwams to more than a hundred. However, in August 1838, they were forced by soldiers to begin a march to Kansas, which is now known as the Potawatomi Trail of Death. During the forced removal, 42 of the 859 Potawatomi had died.

In 1846 the Iowa and Kansas groups merged and were placed on a single reservation north of Topeka, Kansas. This group separated in 1867 with the Citizen Potawatomi moving to Oklahoma near present-day Shawnee.

During these years of removal, the tribe fractured, and many members avoided removal and remained in the Great Lakes area. Others went with the Kickapoo to Texas and Kansas and some migrated to Canada. About 200 of the Potawatomi who went to Iowa and Kansas returned to Wisconsin and settled in the vicinity of Wisconsin Rapids.

Today, there are several federally recognized band of Potawatomi in the United States and in Canada.

United States:

Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Shawnee, Oklahoma
Forest County Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin
Hannahville Indian Community, Michigan
Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi, also known as the Gun Lake Tribe, Dorr, Michigan
Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi, Calhoun County, Michigan;
Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and Indiana
Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation, Mayetta, Kansas.

Canada:

Caldwell First Nation, Point Pelee and Pelee Island, Ontario
Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation, Bruce Peninsula, Ontario
Saugeen First Nation, Ontario
Chippewa of Kettle and Stony Point, Ontario
Moose Deer Point First Nation, Ontario
Walpole Island First Nation, on an unceded island between the United States and Canada
Wasauksing First Nation, Parry Island, Ontario

Potawatomi Chief Strong Arm, 1909

©Kathy Weiser-Alexander, updated October 2018

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A shooting on the gaming floor at Potawatomi Bingo Casino early Sunday sent gamblers running out of the building. Credit: Photo contributed by De Von Dent

Patrons enjoying the early hours of Father's Day at Potawatomi Bingo Casino apparently helped get a handgun away from an angry man who already had fired multiple shots on the casino's gaming floor Sunday.

The suspect, a 27-year-old Wauwatosa man, fired a handgun and wounded a 23-year-old Milwaukee woman about 1:30 a.m., Milwaukee police Sgt. Mark Stanmeyer said.

Multiple people told the Journal Sentinel that frightened patrons stampeded in two waves toward the casino's exits in a chaotic scene as other gamblers sought cover under gaming tables and next to slot machines.

Ryan Amundson, a casino spokesman, said it was the first shooting he knew of inside the casino, at 1721 W. Canal St. There was an armed robbery there in 2011, and later there was an apparent incident of shots fired outside, he recalled.

Police said a fight preceded the shots, but they didn't provide details on the episode, which ended with the arrest of the suspect at the scene. They declined to comment on witness accounts of a struggle to get the gun from the shooter.

Two men said in separate interviews that they heard two to three shots fired, and photos taken by one of the men appear to show multiple unspent bullets on the ground inside the casino.

The casino closed until 9 a.m. Sunday after the incident. The victim, who was hospitalized, suffered a leg wound that was not life-threatening, according to police.

In interviews, friends Antonio Felder and De Von Dent credited Steven Karr with intervening first to try to get the gun after the shots were fired. All are from Milwaukee.

Felder, 48, a contractor with six children, told the Journal Sentinel that he saw Karr wrestling on the ground with two men, one of whom held a gun.

'It looked like a bad game of Twister with a gun,' Felder said. 'Everybody had their hands on the gun. It could have gotten worse.'

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Felder, who was with Dent and some others, said: 'I was worried about my guys. I didn't want anything to happen to them.'

Felder said he joined the fray and put his foot on the gun hand of the suspect and a knee on his back as Karr held him. Karr got the weapon.

Dent, 33, who runs a multimedia marketing firm and was a partner in a north side restaurant, said he waded in as Felder and Karr secured the gun. Dent took multiple photos of the scene.

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Karr declined to comment, but a woman who identified herself as his mother said he is retired and at one time had security training.

Police are still investigating the incident.

Casino officials were saying little on Sunday, deferring to police, but issued a statement praising their security team for their response.

Several casino patrons, including Felder, said the security presence during the incident was light and passive.

One patron, Chicago lawyer James Comerford, who was in the casino with a bachelor party group when the shooting occurred, said he and his buddies had just arrived and were standing at the elevated bar inside the main floor when 50 to 60 people headed for the exits after the sound of gunfire.

About five minutes later there was another stampede, he said.

'We saw people come sprinting,' he said.

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He saw security guards crouched under gaming tables and did not hear casino workers give instructions to patrons. One dealer did get instructions to safeguard his chips, though, Comerford said.

'We were appalled,' he said. 'They had no plan.'

But Martanya Washington, 28, of Milwaukee, who said he was at the casino playing blackjack, did see a security guard telling patrons to get down.

Washington, a casino regular, described a chaotic scene on the gaming floor, with patrons ducking for cover. When the scene calmed somewhat, patrons lined up to cash out their chips, he said, only to see another rush for the exits.

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'It was a crazy situation,' Washington said. 'All I could think was, it's Father's Day and I want to get home to my kids.'

He added: 'I will not be going back down there until they bring in metal detectors.'

The statement released by the Potawatomi casino stated in part:

'We are thankful no one was hurt more seriously and that the situation was contained quickly.

'Response by local law enforcement as well as our security team was outstanding. Potawatomi Bingo Casino will continue to cooperate and assist throughout investigation into this extremely isolated event.'

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Police said the suspected shooter will be referred to the Milwaukee County district attorney's office for possible charges.

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