Potawatomi ‘Trail of Death’ Route Marker

TRAIL OF DEATH :: In September 1838 over 850 Potawatomi Indian people were rounded up and marched at gunpoint from their Indiana homeland. Many walked the 660 mile distance, which took two months. More than 40 died, mostly children, of typhoid fever and the stress of the forced removal. Their young priest, Rev. Benjamin M. Petit, S.J., also became ill on the trail and died at the Jesuit seminary in St Louis on February 10, 1839.

http://www.kansasheritage.org/pbp/people/trail_map.html
Trail of Death march : Sept.4-Nov4, 1838 http://forums.talkcity.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=tc-American_Ind&msg=2702.1&ctx=0
Potawatomi ‘Trail of Death’ Route Marker




Battle Ground in Tippecanoe County, Indiana — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)
Stricken Down in the Performance of Duty
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