Gathering the Potawatomi Nation: Revitalization and Identity alaska as passed down to the

as passed down to the present generation by parents

The history and knowledge passed down to each generation through the bundle is at stake

The self-rule of Native tribes long predates the founding of the United States

and expendable resources—and asks people of European heritage to consider the motives that drive their own history and create their own form of victimization

and a spectacle of sacred tradition and pageantry

Gathering the Potawatomi Nation: Revitalization and Identity alaska as passed down to theFollowing 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