Red Fox had a quick wit about him and I considered him a "Jokester".
Sadly Red Fox "went to the other side" during this Covid outbreak. I will hold him dear to me and will remember him till I go to the other side. Wrapped in the red cloth is a medicine rock.
RIP, Red Fox.
On the grounds of the Fulton County Historical Society & Museum famous for our Trail of Courage Living History Festival, Redbud Trail Rendezvous and Round Barn Museum.
The museum has a special Trail of Death exhibit with mementos from each of the four Trail of Death Commemorative Caravans in 1988, 1993, 1998 and 2003. The museum is the official repository for Trail of Death materials and has 2 file cabinets, plus several shelves of books about the Potawatomi and the Trail of Death in its Reference Room. The Indian Awareness Center, a branch of FCHS, organized in 1983, published newsletters and took as its project to obtain historical markers at each camp site every 15 to 20 miles. The Potawatomi Trail of Death Association was founded here in 2005.
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Some people cross your paths for a reason..little would I know that after leaving the Diné (Navajo Nation Fair) I would cross path with Troy who was headed there. We took in the site at the Blue Hole, old adobe church, and the Pecos River in Santa Rosa.
We just had to take each other pictures before we parted ways. But before he put the truck into drive, he told me about some places I might want to check out. Some people are just made awesome:)
P.S. Troy put together the camper in the back of his truck and painted it with brown camouflage colors. Wish now I would of took a side view of him and his truck:(
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Pearl’s great-grandmother, Equa-Ke-Sec, marched on the Trail of Death.
The Potawatomi Trail of Death was the forced removal by militia in 1838 of some 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 September 4, 1838, and ended on November 4, 1838, along the western bank of the Osage River, near present-day Osawatomie, Kansas. During the journey of approximately 660 miles (1,060 km) over 61 days, more than 40 persons died, most of them children. It marked the single largest Indian removal in Indiana history.
Although the Potawatomi had ceded their lands in Indiana to the federal government under a series of treaties made between 1818 and 1837, Chief Menominee and his Yellow River band at Twin Lakes refused to leave, even after the August 5, 1838, treaty deadline for departure had passed. Indiana governor David Wallace authorized General John Tipton to mobilize a local militia of one hundred volunteers to forcibly remove the Potawatomi from the state. On August 30, 1838, Tipton and his men surprised the Potawatomi at Twin Lakes, where they surrounded the village and gathered the remaining Potawatomi together for their removal to Kansas. Father Benjamin Marie Petit, a Catholic missionary at Twin Lakes, joined his parishioners on their difficult journey from Indiana, across Illinois and Missouri, into Kansas. There the Potawatomi were placed under the supervision of the local Indian agent (Jesuit) father Christian Hoecken at Saint Mary's Sugar Creek Mission, the true end point of the march.
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Interpreters, both paid and volunteer, help bring the history to life with music, live demonstrations, and reenactments, including musket and cannon firing demonstrations. The site has numerous reconstructed historical wooden structures based on archeological excavations. This is considered one of the most extensively excavated early colonial French archaeological sites in the United States.
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Near old Baintertown on the Elkhart River, before Indiana was a state, before Elkhart County was platted, stood the village of the Potowatomi war chief "Five Medals" whose Indian name was "Onaska". This decorated chief ceased hostilities against the United States government after signing the Greenville Treaty in 1795.
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