sentences:  Before white settlement, all of the land that forms modern-day Starke County and adjacent LaPorte County to the north was inhabited by the Potawatami Indian nation.These groups were forcibly removed to Kansas by the United States government in 1838, and many died on what has been called the Trail of Death.When Starke County was created, it included the present LaPorte County townships of Cass, Dewey, Hanna, and Prairie.