Rising up from Indian country : the battle of Fort Dearborn and the birth of Chicago / Ann Durkin Keating.
Keating, Ann Durkin.
2012
E356.C53 K43 2012 (Mapit)
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Title Rising up from Indian country : the battle of Fort Dearborn and the birth of Chicago / Ann Durkin Keating.
Author Keating, Ann Durkin.
ISBN 9780226428963 (alk. paper)
0226428966 (alk. paper)
Published Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Language English
Description xxiv, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number E356.C53 K43 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 977.3/1103
Summary In August 1812, under threat from the Potawatomi, Captain Nathan Heald began the evacuation of ninety-four people from the isolated outpost of Fort Dearborn to Fort Wayne, hundreds of miles away. The group included several dozen soldiers, as well as nine women and eighteen children. After traveling only a mile and a half, they were attacked by five hundred Potawatomi warriors. In under an hour, fifty-two members of Heald's party were killed, and the rest were taken prisoner; the Potawatomi then burned Fort Dearborn before returning to their villages. These events are now seen as a foundational moment in Chicago's storied past. With Rising up from Indian Country, noted historian Ann Durkin Keating richly recounts the Battle of Fort Dearborn while situating it within the context of several wider histories that span the nearly four decades between the 1795 Treaty of Greenville, in which Native Americans gave up a square mile at the mouth of the Chicago River, and the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, in which the American government and the Potawatomi exchanged five million acres of land west of the Mississippi River for a tract of the same size in northeast Illinois and southeast Wisconsin.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Chicago in the Indian country of the western Great Lakes
John Kinzie and the traders in the Indian country of the western Great Lakes, 1763-1812
The Greenville Treaty and the American era, 1789-1800
President Jefferson and the founding of Fort Dearborn, 1803-1804
Kinzie & Forsyth, at Chicago and Peoria, 1803-1812
President Jefferson, Main Poc, and the founding of Tippecanoe, 1808-1811
Battle of Tippecanoe, November 1811
Planning for war, spring 1812
John Kinzie's ambiguous loyalties and a forgotten murder, May-June 1812
The war begins, June-July 1812
The Potawatomi attack, August 15, 1812
John and Eleanor Kinzie's neighbors, August 1812
Captors and captives, fall 1812
A savage fall : 1812 in the west
1813 : shifting alliances
The end of Indian country in the neighborhood of Chicago, 1816-1829
Kinzie's retreat to Chicago, 1816-1828
The 1833 Treaty of Chicago
Why it was not a massacre.

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