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The Potawatomi Trail of Death was the forced removal by militia in 1838 of about 859 members of the Potawatomi nation from Indiana to reservation lands in what is now eastern Kansas. The march began at Twin Lakes, Indiana (Myers Lake and Cook Lake, near Plymouth, Indiana ) on November 4, 1838, along the western bank of the Osage River , ending ...
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Family Stories From the Trail of Tears is a collection edited by Lorrie Montiero and transcribed by Grant Foreman, taken from the Indian-Pioneer History Collection [152] Johnny Cash played in the 1970 NET Playhouse dramatization of The Trail of Tears. [153] He also recorded the reminiscences of a participant in the removal of the Cherokee. [154]
Eugene Victor Britt (born November 4, 1957) is an American serial killer and rapist who killed at least seven girls and women in Gary and Portage, Indiana between May and September 1995. Suspected in a total of ten murders, he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment .
In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed into law the Indian Removal Act that led to the Trail of Tears—a death march that forced around 60,000 Indigenous people to leave their homes and move ...
The park is located on 29 acres consists of a visitor center containing an interpretive center, library, and presentation room, history wall which chronicles the development of the Cherokee people, memorial wall which identifies the names of Cherokee who were removed, and map of the Trail of Tears carved in stone on the ground.
Gary was founded in 1906 for the workers of the United States Steel Corporation. The population peaked at around 180,000 in 1960. Eventually, overseas competition led to massive layoffs.
Gary Hoisington was born in Derry, New Hampshire, on July 16, 1950. [4] [5] After a childhood rife with bullying and mistreatment, he left home when he was 16. [4]He enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, but did not graduate, and later moved to San Francisco, and then Los Angeles; it was there, in the early 1970s, when he began using the name "Gary Indiana".