Due to traditions, I call out "hello friend" in potawatomi and let them run away.
Hot dog!
Another potawatomi on the board.
Bozho nikan!
Traditional potawatomi revere the coyote as protector and believe our people will survive as long as the coyote survive.
Hummm,
There must be something to it there Topash! The coyotes have expanded their range and are doing quite well, and according to this, the Potawatomi are doing pretty good they own self!
"Estimates of the original Potawatomi population range as high as 15,000, but 8,000 is probably closer to the truth. Although they had undergone 30 years of war, relocation, and epidemic, the French estimated there were about 4,000 in 1667. Since all Potawatomi bands had gathered into four villages near Green Bay at that time, this probably was fairly accurate. Later estimates vary between 1,200 to 3,400, but the Potawatomi had separated into many bands, and these estimates failed to list all of them. Accurate counts were not possible until the Potawatomi had been moved to Kansas. In 1854 the Indian Bureau listed 3,440 on the reservation, but some had left with the Kickapoo for northern Mexico. The report also mentioned 600 "strolling Potawatomi," who had avoided removal and were somewhere in Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin. It also failed to include the 4-600 Potawatomi in Canada. The 1910 census listed 2,440 Potawatomi in the United States, with another 180 in Canada - total of 2,620.
The current population of all Potawatomi in Canada and the United States is almost 28,000. "
Source:
http://www.tolatsga.org/pota.html"[Note: This is a single part of what will be, by my classification, about 240 compact tribal histories (contact to 1900). It is limited to the lower 48 states of the U.S. but also includes those First Nations from Canada and Mexico that had important roles ( Huron, Assiniboine, etc.)."
