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Pot·a·wat·o·mi  (pt-wt-m)

n. pl. Potawatomi or Pot·a·wat·o·mis

1.

a. A Native American people variously located in Michigan, Wisconsin, northern Illinois, and northern Indiana in the 17th to the 19th century, with present-day populations in Oklahoma, Kansas, Michigan, and Ontario.

b. A member of this people.

2. The Algonquian language of the Potawatomi.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Potawatomi - a member of the Algonquian people originally of Michigan and Wisconsin Algonquian, Algonquin - a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast
	2.	Potawatomi - the Algonquian language spoken by the Potawatomi Algonquian language, Algonquin, Algonquian - family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains