Many Citizen Potawatomi Nation tribal members seek to learn more about their Native American heritage and family trees, and numerous on and offline resources exist to aid in the process.
The Anderson family’s Potawatomi roots began in 18th century Peoria, Illinois, when a Potawatomi woman named Mary C. Tremblay married a blacksmith named John Anderson.
After the October 2019 Higbee cousins meeting, they gathered at the Cultural Heritage Center where head of the family, John Dragoo, unveiled a quilt handed down through the family for decades that features an in-depth family tree.