Suddenly, Watchekee and her three children were homeless. They once had known security in their cabin in Bourbonnais Grove, located near the Kankakee River in Illinois. Watchekee was unaware that a "shapelin'" would complicate her life and that she would have to endure the 1837 Potawatomi Removal. Although the Removal was filled with many hardships and much misery, Watchekee viewed it as a means to find her father, Zaakenē (=Shabonee), who had...
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