Rising Up from Indian Country: The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago 9780226428963, 0226428966, 9780226428987, 0226428982

In August 1812, under threat from the Potawatomi, Captain Nathan Heald began the evacuation of ninety-four people from t

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John;Keating
Ann Durkin

Table of contents :
John Kinzie timeline --
General timeline --
A mobile cast of characters --
Preface : John Kinzie's world --
Introduction : Chicago in the Indian country of the western Great Lakes --
Part 1: The United States and 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 --
Part 2: Fort Dearborn and Tippecanoe, 1803-1811. 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 --
Part 3: In the wake of the Battle of Tippecanoe, late spring 1812. 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 --
Part 4: In the aftermath of 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 --
Part 5: After the War of 1812. 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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