ELP ID
11025
ELP Language
Potawatomi
Speaker Number
10-99
Public Comment
Potawatomi has about 50 first-language speakers in several widely separated communities in the US and Canada. These include the Hannahville Indian Community (Upper Peninsula of Michigan), the
Pokagon and Huron Bands (southern Michigan), the Forest County Band (northern Wisconsin), the Prairie Band (eastern Kansas), and the Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Oklahoma. A few Potawatomi speakers also live among the Eastern Ojibwe in Ontario, particularly at the Walpole
Island Reserve. The largest speech communities are in the Forest County and Prairie Bands, each
with about 20 speakers, several conservatively fluent.
Source
North America
Preferred
Off
Speaker Number Text
~50
Speaker Number Range
10-99