{"id":27681,"count":2,"description":"Mecosta was a 19th century Potawatomi chief. His name in the Potawatomi language was Mkozd\u00e9, meaning \"Having a Bear's Foot\" but the name was recorded in English to mean \"Big Bear.\"\nMecosta was born near what is today Big Rapids, Michigan. Mecosta County, Michigan is named for him.\nMecosta is best-known as a signer of the Treaty of Logansport (7\u00a0Stat.\u00a0501) on April 22, 1836, which ceded lands reserved in the Treaty of Tippecanoe, and began the removal of Mecosta's band of Potawatomi from Indiana to lands west of the Mississippi River.\nThe following places in Michigan are directly or indirectly named for the chief: ","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/mecosta\/","name":"Mecosta","slug":"mecosta","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/27681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=27681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}