Potawatomi Removals: Forced and "Voluntary"

George Godfrey (Citizen Band Potawatomi) in regalia.
Image Courtesy of George Godfrey.

October 11, 2021

7 PM

Free, Registration required for Zoom Event.

 https://osu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkd-2pqTIsGNSKeNpdiIJ7K36O8rd8xMRv

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PDF of October 11, 2021
George Godfrey Event Flyer.
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The removals of many Potawatomi from the land regions of around southern Lake Michigan – the result of socio-political, cultural conflict, and diminishing resource pressures – is the focus of this event. The “voluntary” removals, largely traced back to the Chicago 1833 treaty, and one forced removal, the Trail of Death, will be discussed in detail by our speaker, Dr. George Godfrey, whose presentation is supported by a Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme grant.

George Godfrey, a Citizen Potawatomi, grew up on the Potawatomi, Sisseton-Whapeton Sioux, Hopi, Omaha, and Winnebago reservations. After receiving his doctorate from Cornell University, he researched Lepidoptera at the Illinois Natural History Survey, became a faculty member and then a university administrator at Haskell Indian Nations University before serving as National Program Leader for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, where he assisted 31 Tribal Colleges and Universities in the development of their undergraduate curricula and research programs.  In addition to his 40+ scientific publications, he has written six books, Watchekee (Overseer) Walking in Two Cultures, Once a Grass Widow: Watchekee’s Destiny, The Indian Marble, Road to Uncertainty: Trials of Potawatomi Removals, Cheyenne Oil and A Perilous Journey.  Dr. Godfrey also is President of the Potawatomi Trail of Death Association (www.potawatomi-tda.org), which memorializes the trail that the Potawatomi took when forcibly removed from northcentral Indiana and taken to east central Kansas in 1838. He is a traditional powwow dancer and storyteller and, with his Pat, have three to nine grown children ‒ depending on how you count.

For more information,

Visit:

• Citizen Band of Potawatomi
• Stepping Out & Stepping Up: The Land-Grant Truth and Reconciliation Project .
• Humanities Institute
• Potawatomi Trail of Death Association
• Potawatomi Trail of Death Chief Menominee Statue
• VisitMarshallCounty.org
• "Treaty with the Chippewa, Etc., 1833" [Treaty of Chicago].
• September 26, 1833.
• Indian affairs: laws and treaties compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. pg. 402-415 [410- of 1110]. | Digitized by University of California and HathiTrust.
• Culver through the years | Culver Union Township Carnegie Library
• Indians of Lake Macinkuckee
• Indian Chiefs of the Area
• The Trail of Death
• Other Local Indian Resources
• Maps of the Culver/Lake Maxinkuckee Area
• Union Township 1835 Map.
• Illinois Natural History Survey
• Insect Collection Search
• GBIF | Global Biodiversity Information Facility