Review
Rising Up From Indian Country: The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago
Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998), Vol.106(2), pp.333-335
07/01/2013
DOI: 10.5406/jillistathistsoc.106.2.0333
Abstract
Territorial governors such as William Henry Harrison and Ninian Edwards, in their avid commitment to territorial expansion, were quite foreign to older residents of the region, who espoused a more inclusive understanding of identity based on the protocols of the fur trade. Following the War of 1812, the Potawatomis ceded more than eighteen million acres to the United States, and most of their people were forced to leave the region by the 1833 Treaty of Chicago. Chicago also became a far more important place than it had been before and during the War of 1812, when places such as Peoria, Kaskaskia, and Kekionga commanded greater attention.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Rising Up From Indian Country: The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago
- Creators
- Stephen Warren
- Resource Type
- Review
- Publication Details
- Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998), Vol.106(2), pp.333-335
- Publisher
- Illinois State Historical Society; Springfield
- DOI
- 10.5406/jillistathistsoc.106.2.0333
- ISSN
- 1522-1067
- eISSN
- 2328-3335
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/01/2013
- Academic Unit
- History; American Studies
- Record Identifier
- 9984025530602771
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