sentences:  Menominee's band of 859 people were forcibly removed to Kansas in 1838, in an event known as the Potawatomi Trail of Death.At the time of European settlement, the area of the confluence of the Yellow and Kankakee Rivers was a densely vegetated marsh, seven miles (11 km) long, known as English Lake.The lower Yellow River was confined to a straightened channel and the wetland was drained and converted to farmland by the 1910s.