By: Sam . G Ozi .U Harrison.K

Story telling is very important to the Potawatomi tribe one of the stories that they told was called the origins of the Potawatomi tribe.  Phttp://www.newsfinder.org/site/more/a_potawatomi_story/Potawatomi tribe men , woman, and children's roles woman’s roles were child care and cooking. Men’s roles were hunting, and sometimes going to war with another tribe to protect there families. Children’s roles were practically the same as us!! They were sometimes camping, going to school, chores, and barely any time to play! The Potawatomi tribe structure Was every Potawatomi village had a chief.

Potawatomi woman wore long deerskin dresses, Potawatomi men wore breechcloths, the Potawatomi wore moccasins on there feet the boys wore the same as the men, the girls wore the same as the woman. They ate deer and fish and elk, wild birds, corn , bean, wild berries , squash, tobacco, and wild rice. They lived in wigwams,

lodges and birch bark houses.

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The Potawatomi’s were close with the Ojibwa tribe. There were two types of dwelling used by the Potawatomi tribe. Potawatomi hunters and warriors used bows , arrows , and wooden clubs. Most Potawatomi’s speak English but some people, especially elders also speak their native Potawatomi language. The Potawatomi were part of the north east woodlands.

When the Europeans came the Potawatomi tribe moved there village kind of northeast, southwest direction.