Group marks Potawatomi Trail of Death from Indiana to Kansas
September 21, 2018
LOGANSPORT, Ind. (AP) — This month marks 180 years since over 850 Potawatomi Native Americans were forcibly removed from their homeland in northern Indiana.
Many walked the 660-mile, two-month journey. Over 40 died — mostly babies, children and elderly.
It's known as the Potawatomi Trail of Death. Every five years since 1988, a group of Potawatomi, historians and other interested persons take a week to travel the trail that starts south of Plymouth, Indiana, and ends in Kansas.
The commemorative caravan recently passed through Logansport, where they visited a marker recognizing part of...
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