The word comes from 'to tend the hearth-fire,' which is bodewadm (without syncope: bodewadem) in the Potawatomi language the Ojibwe and Ottawa forms are boodawaadam and boodwaadam, respectively.Īlternatively, the Potawatomi call themselves Neshnabé (without syncope: Eneshenabé plural: Neshnabék), a cognate of Ojibwe Anishinaabe(g), meaning 'original people'. Their name means 'those who tend the hearth-fire,' which refers to the hearth of the Council of Three Fires. The Potawatomi name for themselves ( autonym) is Bodéwadmi (without syncope: Bodéwademi plural: Bodéwadmik), a cognate of the Ojibwe form. The English 'Potawatomi' is derived from the Ojibwe Boodewaadamii(g) ( syncoped in the Ottawa as Boodewaadmii(g)). Main article: List of Potawatomi ethnonyms

Some bands survived in the Great Lakes region and today are federally recognized as tribes. Under Indian Removal, they eventually ceded many of their lands, and most of the Potawatomi relocated to Nebraska, Kansas, and Indian Territory. In the 18th century, some bands of Potawatomi were pushed to the west by European/American encroachment and eventually removed from their lands in the Great Lakes region to reservations in Oklahoma. In the Council of Three Fires, the Potawatomi are considered the 'youngest brother' and are referred to in this context as Bodéwadmi, a name that means 'keepers of the fire' and refers to the council fire of three peoples. The Potawatomi are part of a long-term alliance, called the Council of Three Fires, with the Ojibway and Odawa (Ottawa).

The Potawatomi call themselves Neshnabé, a cognate of the word Anishinaabe.

They traditionally speak the Potawatomi language, a member of the Algonquin family. The Potawatomi / p ɒ t ə ˈ w ɒ t ə m i/, also spelled Pottawatomi and Pottawatomie (among many variations), are a Native American people of the Great Plains, upper Mississippi River, and western Great Lakes region. United States ( Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Illinois)

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