Word: potawatomis
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...Lorie is really active," says Crawford, who possesses Hawaiian, Potawatomi and Kaw ancestry. "She is trying to create more reasons for Natives to start coming here...
...River was a fine canoeing stream back in 1875, when the Potawatomi Indians headed down it in birch-barks. It still is, as 1,470 weekend paddlers found this month when they took part in the 15th Annual Mid-American Canoe Race. In bright aluminum and fiber-glass craft with names like Shark One and Titanic, the contestants braved a broad, meandering 22-mile stretch of the river in northern Illinois, suffering no injury worse than a cut leg and some overtaxed stomach muscles...
...misty backwaters of Indian legend, a fierce prairie tornado struck the Potawatomi tribe encamped along the Kansas River. The dead were buried on and around the 250-foot hill that is now called Burnett's Mound, on the southwestern edge of Topeka, and the Great Spirit was enjoined to protect the place forever from the twister's deadly cone.* Topeka's immunity to catastrophic tornadoes had itself become a legend until 7:13 one evening last week, when most citizens were at dinner. By the time they would have been clearing the table, 15 were dead...
...described, in an old Potawatomi song: "The grass is moving, the trees are moving, the whole earth is moving...
...searing Midwestern sun. Since its founding in 1831 in the great bend of the Illinois River 112 miles west of Chicago, Hennepin has been largely bypassed and ignored by the world beyond. Its main industry is duck hunting, its greatest claim to fame the burial site of the Potawatomi chief, Senachwine. Hennepin may soon long for the simple days. The surveyors are setting down the boundaries of a huge new $600 million steel mill that Pittsburgh's Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. will begin building next year on 6,000 acres of Hennepin land...