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Trail of Death
Chief Menominee was the leader of the resistance and refused to sell his land and move west of the Mississippi River, per the treaty of 1836. In summer of 1838 squatters had settled on Potawatomi land. Fearing an uprising, they wrote to Indiana Governor David Wallace, asking him to come investigate. He came and decided that the Potawatomi must go. government agents forcibly removed 859 Potawatomi Indians from their homes in Indiana and Michigan to a reservation in Kansas