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Potawatomi Trail of Death

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The Potawatomi Trail of Death was the forced removal by United States forces from September 4 to November 4, 1838, of 859 members of the Potawatomi nation from a place near Plymouth, Indiana, to the location of present-day Osawatomie, Kansas, a distance of 660 miles. Disease and the stress of the removal caused the deaths of more than 40 Potawatomi.

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Reference

  • Winger, Otho, The Potawatomi Indians, Elgin, IL: Elgin Press, 1939, pp. 43-53.
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