Olathe Heritage Park Offers 'Trail Of Death' Native American Tribute

Suburban history offers an important and inherently political perspective from the Kansas plains . . . 

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"Today, Heritage Park in Olathe has a number of reasons to visit: softball fields, fresh walking trails, a marina. But a piece of the park’s history is giving people another reason to visit and reflect.

"In 1838, 859 members of the Potawatomi Nation were forcibly removed from their homes and marched westward in what became known as the Trail of Death, a route believed to have passed through the very land that Heritage Park sits on. Since the 1980s, a rock and plaque near the park’s marina has marked that history, but the remembrance recently transformed into something bigger."

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