{"id":34033,"date":"2022-10-05T14:55:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T19:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=34033"},"modified":"2022-10-05T15:12:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T20:12:20","slug":"from-the-pottawattamie-death-trail-to-the-1966-trail-of-destruction-in-topeka-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=34033","title":{"rendered":"From the Pottawattamie death trail to the 1966 trail of destruction in Topeka, Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finished my third book this month about the expulsion of Indians. It was based on a bill that only passed with a margin of 5 votes in Congress so those who don&#8217;t think it matters who controls Congress&#8230;&#8230;well let that be food for thought.<\/p>\n<p>One of the books villains was a na\u00efve Indian missionary, Isaac McCoy, who made it his mission to move Indians to new western territories such as Oklahoma and Kansas.  Those two states weren&#8217;t mentioned much in the book and as an old Kansas I poked around the Internet to see what I might find out about their destination for several refugee tribes. That led me to my old hometown and the 1966 tornado that devastated Topeka. I was googling &#8220;Burnett&#8217;s Mound&#8221; the highest point in the city where the tornado began a seven mile rampage through town. The page had several pictures of the damage. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiskigeamatyuk.com\/Burnett_Mound_Story.html\">At another site<\/a> I found this picture which shows the old castle like water tower that was next to my Grandmother&#8217;s house. The house blew away and today you can order a Big Mac from the McDonalds that took its place.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52405801015_a86f91f6b5_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What caught my eye in my poking around was the Pottawattamie Trail of Death which is now a long stretch of roads from Indiana to Topeka and mention that Mr. Burnett had been an Pottawattamie interpreter for Rev. Isaac McCoy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52404854822_943bae9b97_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Pottawattamie were barely mentioned in the book I just finished, Unworthy Republic. It spent most of it time describing the ordeal of the Civilized tribes of the Deep South. However, the ever reliable Wikipedia has a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Potawatomi_Trail_of_Death#:~:text=The%20Potawatomi%20Trail%20of%20Death,what%20is%20now%20eastern%20Kansas.&#038;text=Map%20of%20the%20trail%20route,Osawatomie%2C%20Kansas%20two%20months%20later.\">solid entry<\/a> about this episode<\/p>\n<p>I now have an official bug to read up on the entire history, episode by episode of North American Indians. I have been collecting books to read in some unplanned future and that history has just begun. Here&#8217;s a  peak of some of the books I&#8217;m tempted to order which are well reviewed at Amazon.com. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52406521387_5c73631c96_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finished my third book this month about the expulsion of Indians. It was based on a bill that only passed with a margin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,25,91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34033"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34039,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34033\/revisions\/34039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}