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Chauvignerie (1736) mentions among the Potawatomi totems the golden carp, frog, tortoise, crab, and crane.
According to Morgan (Anc. Soc., 167,1877) they have 15 gentes, as follows: (1) Moah, `Wolf' (2) Mko, `Bear' (3) Muk, 'Beaver' (4) Misshawa, 'Elk' (5) Maak, 'Loon' (6) Knou, 'Eagle' (7) Nina , 'Sturgeon' (8) Nmapena, 'Carp' (9) Mgezewa, 'Bald Eagle' (10) Chekwa, 'Thunder' (11) Wabozo, 'Rabbit' (12) Kakagshe, 'Crow' (13) Wakeshi, 'Fox' (14) Penna, 'Turkey' (15) Mketashshekakah, 'Black Hawk' |
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1865:
Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.
1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. 1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman. 1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes. 1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed. 1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |