Portal:Indiana/Did you know
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- ...that Indiana's Eel River (pictured) once served as informal boundary between the lands of the Potawatomi people in the north and Miami people in the south?
- ...that the Potawatomi, a tribe of Native Americans, were evicted from land near Indiana’s Yellow River less than six years after tribal chiefs signed a treaty granting them that land in perpetuity?
- ...that Robert F. Kennedy's speech on the assassination of Martin Luther King is believed to have prevented riots from breaking out in Indianapolis?
- ...that the Kintner-Withers House's Cedar Farm is the only antebellum plantation in the state of Indiana?
- ...that a pioneer automobile manufacturer, August Duesenberg, went bankrupt after his failure to sell his first mass produced vehicle, although his race cars had won seven of the first ten places in the 1920 Indianapolis 500-mile race?
- ... that University of Notre Dame basketball player Luke Harangody (pictured) and his brother were banned from playing basketball in their backyard as children because their games regularly ended in fights?