Night of the Full Moon

Night of the Full Moon by Gloria Whelen is a story about two girls (one Potawatomi and one white) who are trying to escape from forced relocation. The American government wanted all the Native Americans who lived on the east side of the Mississippi River to move to the west side of the Mississippi River and President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830. Most were forced to move because the white people wanted their land or thought they were 'uncivilized'. Today, we have Reservations in the western part of the United States because of this forced relocation.