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Pottawatomie Massacre

Danielle Wildeman

The Pottawatomie Massacre  occurred in the mid 1850s and, unlike what the name might indicate to some, was not about a Native American raid on the new White settlers nor the settler’s attack on a Native American tribe.  Read the following article about the Pottawatomie Massacre. 

Write a retelling/summary and main point of the Pottawatomie Massacre. (Reading Assessment Preparation)

Web Resources

Pottawatomie Massacre
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/brown/peopleevents/pande07.html