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Rising Up from Indian Country: The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago de Ann Durkin Keating

Rising Up from Indian Country: The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago

Autor Ann Durkin Keating
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 oct 2019
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. 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.
 
In the first book devoted entirely to this crucial period, Keating tells a story not only of military conquest but of the lives of people on all sides of the conflict. She highlights such figures as Jean Baptiste Point de Sable and John Kinzie and demonstrates that early Chicago was a place of cross-cultural reliance among the French, the Americans, and the Native Americans. Published to commemorate the bicentennial of the Battle of Fort Dearborn, this gripping account of the birth of Chicago will become required reading for anyone seeking to understand the city and its complex origins.       
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226678580
ISBN-10: 022667858X
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 35 halftones, 14 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

Notă biografică

Ann Durkin Keating is the Dr. C. Frederick Toenniges Professor of History at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. She is coeditor of The Encyclopedia of Chicago and the author of several books, including Chicagoland: City and Suburbs in the Railroad Age and Chicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs: A Historical Guide, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

Cuprins

JOHN KINZIE TIMELINE
GENERAL TIMELINE
A MOBILE CAST OF CHARACTERS
LIST OF MAPS
PREFACE: JOHN KINZIE’S WORLD
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION Chicago in the Indian Country of the Western Great Lakes

PART ONE THE UNITED STATES AND THE INDIAN COUNTRY OF THE WESTERN GREAT LAKES
ONE John Kinzie and the Traders in the Indian Country of the Western Great Lakes, 1763–1812
TWO   The Greenville Treaty and the American Era, 1789–1800

PART TWO  FORT DEARBORN AND TIPPECANOE, 1803–1811
THREE  President Jefferson and the Founding of Fort Dearborn, 1803–1804
FOUR Kinzie & Forsyth, at Chicago and Peoria, 1803–1812
FIVE President Jefferson, Main Poc, and the Founding of Tippecanoe, 1808–1811
SIX   Battle of Tippecanoe, November 1811

PART THREE IN THE WAKE OF THE BATTLE OF TIPPECANOE, SPRING 1812
SEVEN  Planning for War, Spring 1812
EIGHT John Kinzie’s Ambiguous Loyalties and a Forgotten Murder, May–June 1812
NINE   The War Begins, June–July 1812
TEN   The Potawatomi Attack, August 15, 1812

PART FOUR  IN THE AFTERMATH OF AUGUST 15, 1812
ELEVEN  John and Eleanor Kinzie’s Neighbors, August 1812
TWELVE  Captors and Captives, Fall 1812
THIRTEEN  A Savage Fall: 1812 in the West
FOURTEEN  1813: Shifting Allegiances

PART FIVE  AFTER THE WAR OF 1812
FIFTEEN The End of Indian Country in the Neighborhood of Chicago, 1816–1829
SIXTEEN  Kinzie’s Retreat to Chicago, 1816–1828
SEVENTEEN  The 1833 Treaty of Chicago
EPILOGUE  Why It Was Not a Massacre

NOTES
INDEX

Recenzii

“[O]pens up a fascinating vista of lost American history. . . . It's a great story, and Ms. Keating's neutral, unemphatic prose makes it register all the more clearly.”

“[An] informative, ambitious account. . . . On bookshelves in time to honor the bicentennial of the Fort Dearborn battle, Keating’s well-researched book rights some misconceptions about the old conflicts, the strategies of the whites and Indians to keep their land, and how early Chicago came to exist.”

"Keating wants the people of Chicago to understand their origins more fully so that the first star on the city’s flag can represent the intercultural history of Chicago more than a misunderstood battle. But this book provides something just as important for a wider audience. Rising Up from Indian Country adds depth and breadth to an understanding of the geographic, social, and political transitions that occurred on the shores of Lake Michigan in the early 1800s."

“How did Chicago stop being Indian Country and become American? Ann Durkin Keating has recast that struggle into a story far more complex than the conventional ‘manifest destiny’ tale. Well researched and written, this book is an eye-opening account of Chicago's earliest, most contested days.”

“Ann Keating has taken on the least explored area of Chicago history—its raucous beginnings—and brought it magnificently to life. The book is a landmark work, deeply researched and vividly written.”

“Ann Keating has given us a new three-dimensional picture of Chicago’s founding.  Rising Up from Indian Country paints a compelling picture of Chicago’s Indian Country origins and skillfully describes the tragedy at Fort Dearborn from the perspective of all who participated. This is a dramatic story that invites readers both to absorb new facts about the past and to reflect upon their meaning.”

“Rising Up from Indian Country is a masterful study of Chicago’s founding story. Ann Durkin Keating displays her ample skills as a historian, tackling the city’s frontier experience and exploring the roles of the major players, especially those of John Kinzie and of Native Americans during this complex early period. She has cut through the fog of legend to give us a valuable look at Chicago when it was still Indian Country.”

"Keating presents an excellent addition to the interpretation of Chicago’s early history while at the same time providing a reminder to all historians that early border societies were very complex."