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Neighborhood Landuse Timeline <br /> _y�, .a.M,. .-r- f.,/j <br /> , Nlkva'W. kttleemtk f• '4M(+d <br /> *. i <br /> I Lake Michigan - <br /> ., I RA[L, OF DEATH <br /> zSeRagoynakI <br /> c sago - / iirilr. east. on north <br /> bank o. Turin Lakes. .some. �.�6 F <br /> .--t'.:''-'7...:':4 <br /> TRADITIONAL POTAWATOMI HOMELANDS H(7n P(1}awatoml Indians�.� � <br /> were collected in August 1F;• --_ _ -- - <br /> s' 1858 and forced to begin -" <br /> d Ili) <br /> their long march to new - - .;„� E t <br /> homes in the West. Many `- _ '. .- <br /> perished ons the way. <br /> -ram <br /> y- <br /> 1628-1830s 1838 1860-1900 <br /> Colonial& Intertribal Wars Indian Removal Act Kankakee Marsh Drained <br /> Fueled by the fur trade competition and occupation by A series of land cession treaties made between 1795 Soon after the Civil War ended.a 50-plus year ditching <br /> the Iroquois.the Miami tribe fled to northern Indiana. and 1846 led to the removal of most of the native tribes effort cut 250 meandering river miles,waterways. <br /> The Miami asked for aid from others and a large force from Indiana.The Potawatomi and Miami removals and small tributaries down to go straightened miles <br /> gathered to track down and ambush the Iroquois in the 183os and 184os were more gradual and destroying 95%of the habitat.In 1884.meetings were <br /> near South Bend.leaving a large part of the region incomplete,and not all of Indiana's Native Americans held by landowners in South Bend to discuss the <br /> depopulated. voluntarily left the state.In 1838 nearly a thousand drainage of the marsh.The upper river was also highly <br /> Potawatomi people were forcibly removed from channelized with levees to allow easier transport of <br /> After the retreat of the Iroquois,the Potawatomi South Bend,pushed to reservations in Kansas on the cut timber from the wetlands to sawmills downstream. <br /> became the largest tribal population in the area.In Potawatomi Trail of Death.The Pokagon band was not Following increased settlement and agricultural <br /> 1681 La Salle negotiated a treaty with the Miami and forcibly removed because of affiliation with the Catholic development.the Marsh was eventually reduced to <br /> Illinois tribes.The French and 39 Indian chiefs signed Church.The Miami were the last to be removed from roughly 1o%of its original size. <br /> the Great Peace of Montreal in 1701.The Miami tribe Indiana in 1846,but many were permitted to remain <br /> returned to take control of Indiana and northwest Ohio. under land treaties. <br /> The Potawatomi went to Michigan.Peace lasted into <br /> the 1720s. <br /> - _ I i. St:bscr,:uon 9 <br />