Potawatomi

The Potawatomi were forced to relocate from their traditional homeland in the woodlands around the Western Great Lakes after the establishment of the Indian Removal Act of the 1830s. Their forced migration finally ended in the 1840s with many Potawatomi settling onto reservations in Kansas. The moccasins created by Potawatomi women on the reservation retained the distinctive long cuffs traditional to the Potawatomi, but were decorated with extravagant amounts of colourful beadwork in the new Prairie-style.