Rising Up from Indian Country
The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago
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June 11, 2012
Keating (co-editor, The Encyclopedia of Chicago), a history professor at North Central College in Illinois, sets the record straight about the War of 1812’s Battle of Fort Dearborn and its significance to early Chicago’s evolution. The author explores the overlooked evacuation of 94 people from Fort Dearborn to Fort Wayne under pressure from the Potawatomi tribe, a valiant action costing half of Capt. Nathan Heald’s soldiers with the rest of the civilians taken captive. Famous names from Great Lakes lore play an important part in her informative, ambitious account, such as British trader John Kinzie, U.S. Capt. William Wells, the Potawatomi chief Main Poc, trader Jean Baptiste Point de Sable, and the Indian chief Tecumseh. A welcome aspect of Keating’s work is the fair play she exhibits in shifting her focus between the Americans, the French, the British, and the Native Americans, making sure she touches on every notable event, regardless of the faction. 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. 35 illus., 4 maps.
July 1, 2012
Keating (history, North Central Coll.; coeditor, Encyclopedia of Chicago) uses the relatively obscure fall of Fort Dearborn on August 15, 1812, to explore the history, from the signing of the Treaty of Greenville in 1795 to the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, of the land that would become Chicago. She tells the story through the experiences of the Americans, Frenchmen, and Native Americans residing in the region. She also traces how the fall of Fort Dearborn has been remembered over time, most notably through the evolving treatment of a monument built in 1893 titled the Fort Dearborn Massacre, which has gone from publicly marking a seminal event in Chicago's history to being hidden from the public as a politically incorrect representation of the Potawatomi. VERDICT This monograph is recommended for everyone interested in the War of 1812 in the frontier regions of the Old Northwest. Readers should also consider Gillum Ferguson's Illinois in the War of 1812 and Adam Jortner's The Gods of Prophetstown: The Battle of Tippecanoe and the Holy War for the American Frontier.--John Burch, Campbellsville Univ. Lib., KY
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