The Bodéwadmi Confederation of Tribal Nations is a formal body composed of eight Potawatomi tribes in the United States and four in Canada. Tribal leaders formed the union last year at the 2025 Potawatomi Gathering in Wayland, Mich.
The Citizen Potawatomi Tribal Legislature based in Shawnee voted to join the group in September 2025.
But at this year’s gathering hosted by the Forest County Potawatomi Community in Wisconsin, Citizen Potawatomi Chair John Barrett signed the articles of confederation, formally entering the tribe into the union…