Pottawattamies

Pottawattamies, a tribe of American Indians, belonging to the Algonquin stock. The early French settlers established a mission amongst them at Green Bay, and to this day many of them are Roman Catholics. They sided with the English both during the Revolution and in the war of 1812, and afterwards settled in Kansas, where one band of over 400 now live in houses and cultivate the ground. Another band, nearly 500 strong, is on a reservation in the same state, under the care of the Society of Friends.