One hundred and fifty-five years ago, federal officials wanted to move Indian tribes from their lands in northern Wisconsin, Minnesota and upper Michigan to the north central Minnesota community of Sandy Lake.Chosen members from 19 tribal bands arrived there in 1850, and 400 would die before making it home again.Mike Simonson reports on ceremonies this week to remember this region’s own “trail of tears”…
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