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Potawatomi Trail of Death

by | Jan 28, 2009 | True Westerners

Shirley Willard dedicated her career to make sure no one forgets it.
They were simply in the way, holding land that emigrating farmers wanted as their own. So the Potawatomi were rounded up and forced to leave their ancestral lands in Indiana, then one of the most western of America’s 28 states. They started walking in September, moving by 8 a.m. every day. Men, women and children—a few on horseback, the sick in a wagon


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