Heald oversaw the evacuation, but on August 15 the evacuees were ambushed by about 500 Potawatomi Indians in the Fort Dearborn Massacre.

Meanwhile, Black Hawk learned that the Ho-Chunk and Potawatomi tribes were less supportive than anticipated.

After the Civil War, the Creek and Seminole were forced to cede their lands back to the federal government, and the area of Pottawatomie County was used to resettle the Iowa, Sac and Fox, Absentee Shawnee, Potawatomi and Kickapoo tribes.

In what came to be known as the Potawatomi Trail of Death, about 860 Potawatomi Indians who had refused to leave were forced to move from Indiana to Kansas.

The native people of this area were next recorded during the Iroquois Wars ( 1641 – 1701 ) as being Potawatomi and Miami.

Though the Potawatomi and Illinois Confederation tribes were native to the area, the Sauk, from Michigan, became the namesake of the Sauk Trail.

The City of Schaumburg was incorporated on March 7, 1956, but the heritage of Schaumburg dates back to much earlier times when the first inhabitants of the area were members of the Sauk, Fox, Potawatomi, and Kickapoo Native American tribes.

The earliest known inhabitants of the area were the Potawatomi.

According to the story, the Shawnee were permitted to settle on Potawatomi lands in the late 18th century, and Potawatomi Chief Grey Wolf soon fell in love with Mishawaka.

The area was once part of the Potawatomi Hunting grounds and a large majority of the settlers were either associated with the Pottawatomie Indian Reservation or commerce on the Oregon Trail.

Four years later, the exploration party of René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle reported that the Miami were being displaced by the Potawatomi.

According to Dr William Lane, the Potawatomi natives were friendly and the children of settlers and natives often played together.

According to Dr William Lane, the Potawatomi natives were friendly and the children of settlers and natives often played together.

The Potawatomi were forcibly removed from Kalamazoo County in October 1840.

The historical tribes inhabiting the region were the Ottawa, Chippewa and Potawatomi.

The Potawatomi were the original inhabitants of Muskego.

When the Europeans arrived in the Straits of Mackinac area the predominant tribes were: three Algonquian tribes, known as the Council of Three Fires: Chippewa ( Ojibwe ), Ottawa ( Odawa ), and Potawatomi.

Eventually, the proposed company and mine site lands were purchased by the opposed Mole Lake Sakaogon Chippewa and Forest County Potawatomi tribes, whose reservations sat near the site.

The Potawatomi were part of a long-term alliance, called the Council of Three Fires, with the Ojibwe ( Chippewa ) and Ottawa.

In the Council of Three Fires, the Potawatomi were considered the " youngest brother.

The people who resided in Michigan before American settlement were the Ottawa, the Potawatomi, Ojibwa and the Wyandot.

The Odaawaa, together with the Ojibwe ( Ojibwa / Chippewa ) and the Boodewaadamii ( Potawatomi ), were part of a long-term tribal alliance called the Council of Three Fires, which fought the Iroquois Confederacy and the Sioux.

In 1837, the government removed Chief Shipshewana and the Potawatomi Tribe from the northwest corner of the county.

Because of the peacefulness of the Potawatomi, they continued to co-exist with the settlers many years after the Treaty of Chicago until General Brady removed about 250 Indians of Hillsdale and Homer to Miami County, KS.

Because of the peacefulness of the Potawatomi, they continued to co-exist with the settlers for many years after the Removal Act, until the autumn of 1840 when General Hugh Brady removed about 250 Indians of Hillsdale County and Homer to Miami County, Kansas in reaction to homesteader complaints to the Van Buren Administration.

When war broke out, the French used their trading connections to recruit fighters from tribes in western portions of the Great Lakes region ( an area not directly subject to the conflict between the French and British ), including the Huron, Mississauga, Ojibwa, Winnebago, and Potawatomi.

The Kalamazoo name comes from a Potawatomi word, first found in a British report in 1772.

On the original Lone Ranger radio show, Tonto was identified as being from the Potawatomi tribe.

Following the migration there was a cultural divergence separating the Potawatomi from the Ojibway and Ottawa.

In December 1822, missionary Isaac McCoy moved his family and 18 Indian students from Indiana to a site on the St. Joseph River near the present-day city of Niles to open a mission to the Potawatomi Indians.

The name is derived from the Potawatomi " Wah-bon-seh ", meaning " dawn of day " literally.

The county takes its name from the Potawatomi tribe of Native Americans.

Marshall County is notable as the starting point in 1838 of the Potawatomi Trail of Death, which was the forced removal by United States forces of Chief Menominee and 859 members of the Potawatomi nation from Indiana to Indian Territory, at the site of present-day Osawatomie, Kansas, a distance of.

The village takes its name from the Potawatomi chief and peacemaker Shabbona.

Two years later, Dr. Havilah Beardsley moved westward from Ohio and purchased one square mile of land from Pierre Moran ( a half French, half Native American Potawatomi Chief ) in order to establish a rival town named Elkhart.

George Earle, an English immigrant bought land from the Potawatomi Native American tribe, who built a dam on Deep River, creating Lake George.

The site of present-day Valparaiso was included in the purchase of land from the Potawatomi Indians by the U. S. Government in October 1832.

The city name comes from the Potawatomi word meaning " fishing water ".

The name ' Manitou Beach ' is derived from the Potawatomi name of Devils Lake, " Michemanetue ", meaning, " Lake of the ( evil ) Spirit ".

It reads as thus: " On October 17 and 18, 1838, about 850 Potawatomi Indians camped near Huntsville, on their way from nothern Indiana to Kansas ; a forced march accompanied by soldiers.

The name Muskego is derived from the Potawatomi Indian name for the area, " Mus-kee-Guaac ", meaning sunfish.

After continued harassment from the south, a coalition of the Ojibway, Odawa and Potawatomi Algonquin nations, known as the Three Fires, gradually pushed the Haudenosaunee off this land and the Mississaugas settled there by 1695, fishing and growing crops more locally in the summer and hunting further afield in the winter.