1. 1. A Native American people variously located in Michigan, Wisconsin, northern Illinois, and northern Indiana in the 17th to the 19th century, with present-day populations in Oklahoma, Kansas, Michigan, and Ontario.
   2. A member of this people.
2. The Algonquian language of the Potawatomi.

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