Send to: This form must be filed with the Trail Committee. Pokagon - Kekionga Trails Inc. at least five (5) days in advance of hike.

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1 POKAGON TRAIL CUB - BROWNIE TREK / BOY SCOUT TRAIL Send to: This form must be filed with the Trail Committee Pokagon - Kekionga Trails Inc. at least five (5) days in advance of hike. P.O. Box 192 or call: (260) or (260) Angola, IN Phone: (260) or (260) The following scout group under the proper adult leadership will be hiking the Cub-Brownie Trek / Boy Scout Trail at the Pokagon State Park. UNIT NUMBER Date of hike We will will not camp Estimated time of arrival Estimated departure time Leader s Name Age Phone Address: City, State, Zip In consideration of the benefits to be derived, and in view of the fact that the BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA is an educational institution, membership in which is voluntary, and having full confidence that every precaution will be taken to insure the safety and well being of this unit on this activity, I hereby agree to our participation and waiver all claim against the Pokagon-Kekionga Trail Committee Officers, Agents, Property Owners and Representatives of the Boy Scouts of America. Nov POKAGON TRAIL MEDAL Service Project of Pokagon-Kekionga Trail Troop 303 Fort Wayne & Troop 125 Angola

2 NOTE TO HIKERS -- READ STUDY THE MAP OF THE PARK AND OF THE TRAIL BEFORE STARTING YOUR HIKE. FOLLOWING A MAP AND USING A COMPASS ARE SCOUT REQUIREMENTS. follow the policies and practices set up by the State Department of Natural Resources. You will find him helpful and ready to assist your unit in any way he can. However, do not expect him to bend the rules for you. He will appreciate your cooperation, and will make every effort to cooperate with you. Send completed application and requirement forms to: POKAGON-KEKIONGA TRAILS, INC. P.O. BOX 192 ANGOLA, IN (260) or (260) AWARDS GOOD HIKING! READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS TO YOUR SCOUTS AND PATROL LEADERS BEFORE STARTING HIKE. KEEP SCOUTS TOGETHER. NOTE: A COUNCIL APPROVED TRAVEL PERMIT WILL BE NEEDED FOR THE PARK. Those who hike the trail are entitled to wear the Pokagon Trail Patch and Medal. The Trail Patch is 3 x 4 and has six (6) colors. The Medal design is a fish and a feather crossed. The fish represents the wildlife in the park; the feather represents the Indian Lore of the area. Those who hike the 3 1/2 mile trek are entitled to wear the 3 x 4 five-color Trek Patch. For the hikers that hike the trail for the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and more times, there is a repeat patch or pin available. There is no trail fee. Trail awards are purchased on a voluntary basis

3 and some former low shores and low islands have been flooded. In the Lower Basin, Blind Island has disappeared except for rushes that mark the site. Higher ground is make of loose till that is easily eroded when attacked by waves. The wave action undercuts some slopes and develops cliffs. ANTI-LITTER REQUIREMENT The fact is that litter is unsightly, is a health and safety hazard and contributes to pollution. The Pokagon-Kekionga Trail Committee is making an Anti-litter Project part of the requirements for this trail. Each unit is to pick up litter (paper, cans, etc.) as they hike the trail. If the trail is clean, take time out to pick up litter around parking lots, lakes, or in campgrounds (any place there is litter). LOOK FOR IT! As your unit hikes past the Property Manager s office or checks out at the park gate, show the park employee the litter and ask him/her to sign your application form. We think that you will agree that this REQUIREMENT is in keeping with the B.S.A. Scout program, S.O.A.R. So lets clean up this world of ours! We suggest each unit have a large plastic garbage bag for litter. CONDUCT Unit Leader, it is your responsibility to keep you unit under control. It is essential that hikers maintain a high standard of conduct, courtesy and consideration toward the public property through which this trail passes. Acts of vandalism along the trail could result in the trail being closed. Keep it clean and help us maintain its beauty and our good relationship with the park management so that those who follow you can enjoy hiking as you have. ABOUT THE TRAIL The trail was developed for Boy, Girl and Brownie Scouts so that they may become acquainted with the history and territory that was once the home of the Potawatomi Chiefs, Leopold and Simon Pokagon. This is an 8 mile cross country trail for Boy and Girl Scouts and a 3 1/2 mile trek for Cub and Brownie Scouts. Pokagon State Park is located north of Angola, Indiana on Highway 27 or I-69. The trail and trek are also open to other groups. START OF TRAIL - MARKERS The trail starts, for units that camp overnight, at the Youth Campground. For units that don t camp overnight, the trail and trek start at the Nature Center. The trail makes a circle back to the start. The Cub-Brownie Trek starts and ends at the parking lot across from the saddle barn next to the overpass of the toboggan slid. Unit Leaders - Due to the great amount of vandalism of the Trail and Trek markers, the Trail Committee has included compass reading on the map in areas we feel your scouts may have problems. There are no other type of trail markers, just the mapcompass readings and the Park Trail Markers (Trails 1-2-3, etc.). We feel, that with the map and compass readings, your unit will have very little problems on the Trail. This will also help your scouts with compass readings. The property manager s job is to manage the property and

4 CAMPING FACILITIES Overnight camping facilities are available at Pokagon State Park. If you wish it camp, write the Property Manager for reservations: Pokagon State Park Lane 100 Lake James - Angola, IN (260) This trail may be hiked by all youth groups. 2. Axes and sheath knives ARE NOT permitted on the trail. 3. Anti-litter project must be completed to receive the trail awards. 4. Each hiker must hike the trail as a member of a unit. For every ten hikers, there must be at least one adult, 21 or older, and all members of the unit must hike together. 5. The brief history of the park and the requirements that are supplied in this brochure must be read to the group before hiking the trail. 6. Scout units traveling a distance of 250 miles or less from home should have a local tour permit (form # 4426). Units traveling over 250 miles should apply for a national tour permit (form # 4419). 7. No fires on the trail - only in park fireplaces. 8. All park rules must be observed. 9. The full length of the trail must be hiked to receive the trail awards. 10. Remember, this is a State Park area. Treat it with respect and do not disturb the people picnicking. 11. There is a gate fee. FOOD & CHURCHES Food may be purchased at Angola, Indiana. Churches of all faiths are located at Angola. heterogeneous mixture of boulders and clay called glacier till or drift that covers the ground and was dropped when the ice melted, and the character of the boulders themselves. The boulders consist of quartzite, banded gneiss, granite that is grey or pink in color, dark diorite and other rocks foreign to the state, that were brought by the moving ice hundreds of miles from Canada. Among the boulders on display at the entrance to Potawatomi it a conglomerate or pudding stone made up of cemented pebbles. Each boulder tells a story. Pokagon State Park occupies about two-thirds of the eastern shoreline of the lake. On the way to the park from Interstate 69, the road is built through the midst of typical knobs and kettles that are characteristic surface features of glacial moraines. This particular deposit has been named the Mississinewa Moraine and was mostly the work of the Erie Glacial Lobe with possibly some material brought in by the Saginaw Lobe. The undulating morainal hills bordering Lake James to the east rise more than 100 feet above the water, thus giving the basin a depth of about 200 feet below the neighboring hills. The lake basin lies entirely in glacial till. Drilled wells in Steuben County hit bedrock at about 600 feet above sea level, and before the glacial period, northern Indiana seems to have been a plain at this elevation. The highest points in the county are 1,000 to 1,500 feet above sea level, indicating that the glacial debris has covered the area to a height of at least 500 feet. In Hillside County, Michigan, just to the north, the drift is only about 100 feet in depth. Before the glacier arrived, this area was a plateau capped by resistant sandstone. The great glacial accumulation in northeast Indiana was dropped in the lee of this once prominent table land. The floor of Lake James is uneven with a few deep holes, the deepest reported being 87 feet. There are numerous shallows and a few islands. The bottom is generally sandy with little marl and muck except at Blind Island in the Lower Basin and some swampy shores. Several excellent sandy beaches occur, usually in bays where cliffs are absent. The lake is fed by numerous springs and the wooded shores help keep the water clear. In the last decade, the water level of the lake has risen

5 Although there is no perpetuate of the memory of Leopold and Simon Pokagon, their names have become familiar because of Pokagon State Park and its Potawatomi Inn. POKAGON STATE PARK Since the park s establishment in 1925, it has become increasingly popular as a family outing place. On the shores of Lake James in the heart of the rolling hills of Steuben County, Pokagon is truly Indiana s year-around playground, providing healthful outdoor recreation at all times of the year. Part of an area once ruled by the powerful Potawatomi Indians, the park takes its name from one of the famous chiefs, Simon Pokagon. The attractive Potawatomi Inn, overlooking Lake James, carries the tribal name and is widely known for its excellent food and fine services at all seasons. Summertime activities offered at Pokagon include horseback riding, swimming, boating, hiking, bicycling and tennis. Winter sports fans enjoy ice fishing, skating, cross country skiing and sledding. The 1,780 foot refrigerated double-track toboggan slide provides thrills galore for park visitors of all ages. The Nature Center is open every day of the year, staffed by naturalists who offer daily programs for the general public in the summer and on weekends the rest of the year. Steuben County has more lakes than any other county in Indiana. These lakes were formed about 12,000 years ago by glaciers that blanketed the area here and up to Canada. Lake James is the largest lake in Steuben County and the seventh largest in the state. The lake is about 3 1/2 miles long and a mile wide at the broadest point, covering 1,600 acres in its three basins - Lower, Middle, and Upper. In addition to lakes, other evidence of past glaciers include the hummocky moraines, the POKAGON, CHIEF OF THE POTAWATOMI This land of Smiling Waters is steeped in Indian Lore. With the woods and the hills, the Indians found this a favorite hunting ground with plenty of water and game. Indian names familiar in this area are those of the Potawatomi Chiefs, father and son, Leopold and Simon Pokagon. The lives of these men form the connecting link between the early Indians and the pioneers who later settled here. Leopold was an orphan Chippewa child who was captured by a Potawatomi Chief about He was called Pokagon because he was wearing, as part of his headdress, a human rib. Pokagon means rib. Leopold Pokagon, although he became a friend of the Christian Missionary, never adopted the religion. He was a respected and judicial chief. One of Leopold Pokagon s visitors was Johnny Appleseed, who roamed over the area planting apple seeds. On one trip when Appleseed expressed his desire to go south to the Tippecanoe country, Pokagon took him in his own cart. This two-wheeled wagon, drawn by an ox and a horse, and containing an Indian and a white man, must have made an unusual scene. Simon Pokagon was born in old Pokagon Village about When he was eleven years old, his father died and he was given an education by white friends. He eventually had four years of college at Notre Dame University and one year at Oberlin College. He and his wife, Lonidaw, had four children. A great event of his life was a trip to the World s Fair in Chicago in At this time, he presented to the Mayor of Chicago a deed for the land on which the city was built. Even though the price was ridiculously small (3 an acre), the United States withheld payment for thirty years. Simon Pokagon was the last noted chief of the Potawatomi Indians

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