Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Potawatomi /ˌpɑːtəˈwɑːtəmiː/ also spelled Pottawatomie and Pottawatomi (among many variations) are a Native American people of the upper Mississippi River region. They traditionally speak the Potawatomi language a member of the Algonquian family. In the Potawatomi language they generally call themselves Bodéwadmi a name that means keepers of the fire and that was applied to them by their Ojibwe brothers. They originally called themselves Neshnabé a cognate of the word Anishinaabe.
