POTAWATOMI (properly Potewalmik,

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• FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire-makers, in allusion to their

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• SECESSION

secession from the

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• OJIBWAY (OJIBWA)

Ojibway, and their

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• ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement, late Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

establishment of a

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• SEPARATE

separate

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• COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council-fire)  , a tribe of North-American Indians of Algonquian stock . When first known (about 1670), they lived around Green Bay, Wisconsin . They subsequently moved south and?eventually settled in lower Michigan . They were allied with the French in their wars against the Iroquois and took part in the conspiracy of Pontiac (q.v.) . In the War of Independence they fought for England, as also in that of 1812 . In 1846 most of them were removed to a reservation in Kansas . Of these the majority have abandoned their tribal relations and become citizens . Others are in Wisconsin and the bulk in Oklahoma . They now number some 2500 .