A Potawatomi woman wants a county in Indiana to recognize the Potawatomi Trail of Death.
In September 1863, more than 850 Potawatomi ancestors in Indiana were marched out of the state at gunpoint. They were forced to walk 660 miles to Kansas.
"They're a huge part of our history," Tracy Locke, a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Oklahoma, told The Lafayette Journal and Courier. "But it's one of those things that's out of sight, out of mind."
Locke, who lives in Tippecanoe County, and others are pushing the county to put up 15 signs to mark the trail. Some signs have already been approved by the state.
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(The Lafayette Journal and Courier 9/16)
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