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here in east central Illinois you may have seen a sign on a country road

marker in a park noting the round to the Pottawatomie trail of death

was the route that some 850 members of Potawatomi tribe from Indiana

Indiana to 1838 traveled on foot to new lands

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reserved for them in Kansas 1440 people mostly children died

what mg metals today on focus were looking back Potawatomi

trail of death on 175th anniversary hear from

Express Pottawatomie in the federal government Indian removal

focus continues after the news

welcome to focus on Jim Meadows I was driving around of the month to sell over and pints

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County Illinois when I first noticed it was a little road sign telling me I was on the

what’s on the route to the Pottawatomie trail of death with an arrow pointing the way a little while

little while later I came across another sign which point is the way a little further

the signs were put there to remind me of something that occurred in 18

38 that was 100 members of the Potawatomi tribe took a journey

by foot from Indiana to Kansas leaving the lands they had known

but now I had to leave to go to lands of the federal government had set aside for them

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doesn’t died along Route which covered four states including

part of the route through Illinois from Danville to Quincy this event is remembered

bird as the Pottawatomie trail death and it was one of several coastal cold Indian

removal of a card with a federal law in the 19th century ordered