Bodéwadmi

A form of Potawatomi — A member of a Native American people of the upper Mississippi River region.

Meanings

nounBodéwadmi (plural Bodéwadmi or Bodéwadmis)

plural Bodéwadmis · alternative Bodewadmi

  1. alternativeAlternative form of Potawatomi (person).
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    The Anishinaabe people are American Indians who have historically been associated with the Great Lakes region of what is now called Canada and the United States. The Anishinaabe people of the Great Lakes include the Odawas (also known as the Ottawas), the Chippewas (also known as the Ojibwes), and the Potawatomis (also known as the Bodéwadmis)—three interrelated groups that are sometimes collectively referred to as the Three Fires Confederacy.

    2022 May 5, Arland Thornton, Alphonse Pitawanakwat, Eric Hemenway, Lindsey Willow Smith, Linda Young DeMarco, Anishinaabe Geography in the 1930 Decennial Census—and the Use of this Geography in Studying the 1900-1940 Attributes of Anishinaabe People, page 4

    Historically, by the early 1500s, the Potawatomi—also known as the Neshnabek or Bodéwadmi—had migrated from ancestral homelands along the Atlantic coast and around the St. Lawrence River into the Great Lakes region. They settled around Lake Michigan, establishing a presence across what is now southern Michigan, northern Indiana, northeastern Illinois, and southeastern Wisconsin.

    2025 August 4, Levi Rickert, “Bodéwadmi Confederation Articles Signed at 2025 Pottawatomi Gathering”, in Native News Online

Origin

  1. PotawatomiBodéwadmi
  2. EnglishBodéwadmi

Unadapted borrowing from Potawatomi Bodéwadmi.

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APA

Bodéwadmi. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bod%C3%A9wadmi

MLA

“Bodéwadmi.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bod%C3%A9wadmi. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Bodéwadmi,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bod%C3%A9wadmi.

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