List of Potawatomi ethnonyms

Main article: Potawatomi

This is a list of various names the Potawatomi have been recorded.

Endonyms

Neshnabé

Neshnabé (without syncope: Eneshenabé), a cognate of Ojibwe Anishinaabe, meaning “Original People.” The plural is Neshnabék.

Bodéwadmi

Bodéwadmi (without syncope: Bodéwademi), a cognate of OjibweBoodewaadamii”. It means “those who keep/tend the hearth-fire”, which in this case refers to the hearth of the Council of Three Fires. The word itself comes from “to keep/tend the hearth-fire”, which is “bodewadm” (without syncope: “bodewadem”; Ojibweboodawaadam”). The plural is Bodéwadmik.

Exonyms

Fire Nation

This is a loose translation of Bodéwadmi.

Lice Nation

This is a shortening of Bodéwadmi, which happens to be a homophone to the French word for “lice” (poux).

Hybridized name

These name come from hybridization of Bodéwadmi with the French poux.

Iroquoian names

Other names

See also

Notes

  1. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsp&fileName=007/llsp007.db&recNum=88 Note that "Hamtramck" is misspelled "Hamtranck" in at least one subsequent citation of this source. See also Jean François Hamtramck.

References

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