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Trail of Tears
Around 3,000 Indians are rounded up and put into boats in the summer of 1838 and taken into Indian Territory. In the winter of 1838-1839, over 14,000 indians were marched over 1,200 miles through Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas into rugged Indian Territory. Estimated 4,000 died from hunger, exposure and disease. It was known as "the trail where they cried". Which evolved into the trail of tears. -
Potawatomi Trail of Death
People of the potawatomi tribe were forced from present day Indiana to Kansas which was some 660 miles long. Out of the about 900 tribe members typhoid fever,stress, other illness and the trail itself killed about 40 tribe members. Most of those who died were children. The trail was the result of the Indian Removale Act of 1830.
