Since we missed a couple of days this week, I want to move ahead with the Potawatami Indians. For background, read the sections on the Northeast and Woodland cultural areas in Zimmerman and Molyneaux, "Native North America," pp. 36-43. To oversimplify greatly, the Woodland Indians included most tribes in eastern Canada and the northeastern United States at the time of contact with white civilization. It's hard to realize now, but most of the eastern United States was covered by forest -- or woodland. Hence the name. The tribes or Indian nations from Virginia north tended to to raise corn, squash and beans but also relied heavily on woodland hunting.
The Indian nations of Illinois, including the Illini confederation from which the state gets its name, were Woodland Indians. For Wednesday, read on the Web: (1) the history of the Illini peoples at http://members.tripod.com/~RFester/index.html; (2) an account of the Black Hawk War, in 1832, put up by Northern Illinois University at http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/blackhawk/.
Today we'll answer the questions posted below on the diary of the Potawatomi "Trail of Death" that went through Springfield in 1838, at http://www.ukans.edu/~kansite/pbp/history/trail_mtls.html I assigned last week.
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