While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Early in 1600 were occupying the lower peninsula of Michigan in scattered bands,
whence they were finally driven west ward by the Iroquois, and settled about
Green Bay. The French acquired much influence over them, whom they joined in
their wars with the Iroquois. Joined Pontiac in his uprising in 1733. Hostile to
colonists during the Revolution, but made a peace in 1795, joining the English
again, however, in 1812. New treaties followed by which their lands were almost
entirely conveyed away, until in 1833 a reserve was allotted them on the
Missouri, to which 800 were removed. The whole tribe then numbered about 4,000,
some bands of which had made considerable progress in civilization, while a
part, called the Pottawatomie of the Prairie, were roving and pagan. Those in
Kansas made rapid progress in civilization. In 1867, 1,400 out of 2,180 elected
to become citizens and take their lauds in severally; the others held to their
tribal organization, but disintegration set in and many became wanderers, some
even going to Mexico. It is difficult at the present time to estimate their
whole number, owing to their scattered condition. There are only 450 in the
Indian Territory, under the care of the Indian Bureau, and in Michigan 60. The
others are citizens or roaming in Mexico. Of this once numerous and powerful
nation we have but a single illustration, viz:
List of illustrations
522. Mzhik-Ki-An. Thunder Coming Down to the Ground.
Descriptive Catalogue, Photographs Of North American Indians. United States Geological Survey
of the Territories, 1877 by W. H. Jackson, Photographer of the Survey,
F. V. Hayden, U. S. Geologist.
