The Potawatomis: Keepers of the Fire Volume 145

by R. David Edmunds

Book Overview

The Potawatomi Indians were the dominant tribe in the region of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and southern Michigan during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Active participants in the fur trade, and close friends with many French fur traders and government leaders, the Potawatomis remained loyal to New France throughout the colonial period, resisting the lure of the inexpensive British trade goods that enticed some of their neighbors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080612069X
• ISBN13: 9780806120690
• Release Date: September 1987
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.0"