The Potawatomi Trail of Death was the forced removal by United States forces from 4 September to 4 November 1838, of 859 members of the Potawatomi nation from Twin Lakes, now known as Myers Lake and Cook Lake, near Plymouth, Indiana, to the location of present-day Osawatomie, Kansas, a distance of 660 miles (1,060 km). Typhoid fever and the stress of the forced march led to the death of over 40 individuals, mostly children.
Fr. Benjamin Marie Petit, who marched with his congregation of natives, died in St. Louis on February 10, 1839, in part exhausted by the rigors of the journey.
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