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The Potawatomi Experience
of Federal Removal Policy

 

This discussion of Indian removal includes the following components:

 

Federal Removal Policies

The Potawatomi Experience of Removal ca. 1830-1840

Additional Information

Bibliographic Note: Information regarding federal removal policy in the 1820's and 1830's and its application to the Potawatomi was found in Francis Paul Prucha, The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984) and James A. Clifton, et. al., People of the Three Fires: The Ottawa, Potawatomi and Ojibway of Michigan (Grand Rapids, MI: Grand Rapids Inter-Tribal Council, 1986).