Two-Moon Journey: The Potawatomi Trail of Death

Indiana Historical Society, 2018. Hardcover. New. New casewrapped hardcover. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes glossary, bibliography, photos, and illustrations. 364 pp.

Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Two Moon Journey tells the story of a young Potawatomi Indian names Simu-quah and her family and friends who were forced from their village in Indiana where they had lived for generations, to beyond the Mississippi River in Kansas. Historically the journey was known as the Potawatomi Trail of Death. Like the real Potawatomi, Simu-quah would live forever with the vision of her home and the rest of her village being burnt to the ground by the soldiers as she took her first steps to a distant and frightening westward land. She experiences the heat and exhaustion of endless days of walking; help nurse sick children and the elderly in a covered wagon. During the journey she turns away from hating the soldiers to seeing them as people. In Kansas, as she planted corn seed she had saved from her Indiana home, she turns away from the bitterness of removal and finds forgiveness, the first step in the journey of her new life in Kansas.