Signs would trace 'Potawatomi Trail of Death'
"The Potawatomi Trail of Death was well documented but it was swept under the rug of history," said Shirley Willard, Fulton County Historian. "These signs will help people find the trail and understand what happened."
In 1838, 859 Potawatomi American Indians were forcibly led from their northern Indiana home near Twin Lakes to Kansas as part of government-sponsored removal campaigns of Indians to resettlement sites. Hardships of the journey lead to 40 deaths.
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This might be a better name for the other forced marches (voluntary according to Writerfella) called "Trails of Tears"...
Writerfella here --
writerfella referred EXCLUSIVELY to the 'Five "Civilized" Tribes,' and not to any others who were force-marched to Indian Territory. But of course, to EuroMen, all such marches were the same. By the bye, a lot of the Potawatomis wound up here in Oklahoma, further pissing off the Fivers, and the University of Oklahoma in fact was founded on a Potawatomi land grant. How does writerfella know this? Because he used that information as an OU student in the 1960s to stop, disembowel, and thence to destroy OU's compulsory ROTC program for every male student under 21. 'Land grant' colleges and universities are not allowed to make ROTC compulsory and, almost overnight, the ROTC program was reduced to voluntary and much less than 1/5th its original size and funding. To this day, ROTC remains but a minor annoyance at OU...
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Russ Bates
'writerfella'
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