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ISBN: 978-0-87195-425-1 by Peggy King Anderson

Two-Moon Journey tells the story of a young Potawatomi girl named Simu-quah and her family and friends who were forced from their village at Twin Lakes, near Rochester, Indiana, where they had lived for generations, to beyond the Mississippi River in Kansas.  Historically the journey is known as the Potawatomi Trail of Death.  Like the real Potawatomi, Simu-quah lived with the vision of the soldiers setting fire to her home and the rest of the Twin Lakes village as she took her first steps to a distant and frightening westward land.  She experiences the heat and exhaustion of endless days of walking; helps nurse sick children and the elderly in a covered wagon that was ill-smelling, hot and airless; sleeps beside strange streams and caves–and turns from hating the soldiers to seeing them as people.  In Kansas, as she plants corn seeds 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.