Ann Durkin Keating

Right.

And it's several years of this removal.

So there's a removal from Indiana and then there's a removal from Illinois.

And you are absolutely right.

And it's really important to be thinking about the fact that this is something that takes place over and over again in U.S.

history.

And we do have blinders on about it's a Cherokee removal.

And it's like, no, the Trail of Tears is this much broader story of what's taking place.

And for the Pottawatomie that are removed, they are moved first to Missouri, which rejects Pottawatomie claims to land.

And Congress has to step in in their move to Iowa.

And from Iowa, most of them are removed again to Kansas.

And from Kansas, they're going to be removed finally to Oklahoma territory.

So this is just the beginning of a series of removals for the Pottawatomie.

But you'll find descendants of those Pottawatomie families across Iowa, Kansas, and Oklahoma.

And so the prairie band Pottawatomie are now located in Oklahoma.

Yes.

I think that's an important way of thinking about this.

And it makes it possible then to begin buying and selling that land.

And you get the first subdivision.

So the first plat at Chicago actually precedes the 1832 subdivision.