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Tribes — New Carlisle
The people of this ground call themselves Bodwéwadmi — the Potawatomi. The Miami, the Myaamia, are tested against this ground below and do not stand on it in the record. New Carlisle's Indigenous history is unusual in the county record for what it lacks and what it holds: it lacks a village — no named Potawatomi village attaches to this ground in any instrument read — and it holds, instead, a paper geography of individual grants, the Carey Mission scholar quarter-sections of 1826, one of which is the townsite itself. This section prints both halves of that record at their true size.
The village test: no village on this ground is in the record
The record vs. the not-record
No Potawatomi village on this ground was found in any source read. Not in the treaties of 1821, 1826, 1828, or 1832; not in the federal reserve catalogue compiled from the tract books; not in the county histories read first-hand…
The place-names in all their readings
Names
The ground's Indigenous-layer names survive in French and in one family's name. Terre Coupee is the prairie's name — carried by the plat of Terre Coupee that became Hamilton, by Terre Coupee Lodge No. 204 of the Masons, organized…
Nation by nation, against this ground
The test
Potawatomi: positive, on both layers. The tribal layer is the cession of 1826 that took the townsite, plotted in the land section; the individual layer is the scholar grants of the same treaty's schedule, fifty-eight…
Removal: the dated course, and the band that stayed
1838–1843
The county's own chronology dates the removal and names its conductor. The 1875 atlas: "Various treaties having been made with the Indians by Gen. Cass… they were removed in 1840–43, per order of the General Government, into…
The modern nations, as of November 2026
As of November 2026
The Potawatomi of this ground are today a family of nations. Nearest this ground stands the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, the descendant community of the band that stayed, in Michigan. With it the federally recognized…
The record's edge
Closing
What the record does not carry is stated, not filled. It does not carry a village here, a site here, or a gloss for Terre Coupee. It does not carry the Bourissa family's course after the sale of 1835 — where the children went, or…
The Nations' Own Accounts: The Pokagon Band and the Citizen Potawatomi on This Valley
The modern nations in their own published voice, as of November 2026
The Pokagon Band, in its own words, on its own site: The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians' official website opens, as of November 2026, under the heading “Rooted in our homeland. Guided by our teachings. Serving our people and…