Chief Pokagon

I’ve been doing a project about a Native American Chief called Chief Pokagon. He was the reason that his tribe, the Potatwatomi, could stay near South Bend when all the other Native Americans had to leave because the white people came. He could stay because he agreed to become a Catholic. He also had to pay taxes. I found this out at the history museum.

At the history museum. This is a canoe like the ones the Potawatomi
would have used on the St Joseph river in South Bend

Me in a wigwam like the ones Chief Pokagon's people lived in

To find out more about the Kidsfirst Children's History museum, click here.