The Place of Wild Onions | Settler Colonial City Project

"The Place of Wild Onions." LSA Magazine Spring 2020 issu. University of Michigan. Pages 40-42.

April 14, 2020.

The University of Michigan's LSA Spring issu magazine briefly summarizes the ongoing Settler Colonial City Project (SCCP) which highlights the city of Chicago's unceded land and its American Indian history.

"You are acquanted with this piece of land-the country we live in. Shall we give it up? Take notice, it is a small piece of land, and if we give it away, what will become of us?" -Translated speech of  Me-te-a [Pottawatomie Chief from the Wabash] at the 1821 Treaty of Chicago; published by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft [Travels in the central portions of the Mississipi Valley: comprising observations on its mineral geography, internal resources, and aboriginal population: performed under the sanction of government, in the year 1821. Collins and Hannay, 1825. Image 356/Page 342] 

For more information,

Visit:

• Settler Colonial City Project (SCCP)
• American Indian Center of Chicago
• Imprints: The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians and the City of Chicago
• Dr. John Low, Michigan State University Press, February 2016.
• [Project Muse e-book OSU Login]
• 1821 Treaty of Chicago
• Waseyabek Development Compay, LLC | Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi (NHBP)
• "The Dark History of the Treaty of Chicago"
• Leon Despres, HuffPost, August 15, 2008 [Updated May 25, 2011].
• Travels in the central portions of the Mississipi Valley: comprising observations on its mineral geography, internal resources, and aboriginal population: performed under the sanction of government, in the year 1821.
• Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Library of Congress, Collins and Hannay, 1825. pg335- pg377/Image 342-391.
• Forest County Potatawatomi |Keeper of the Fire
• September 26, 1833 Treaty of Chicago
• American Indian Urban Relocation
• National Archives | Educator Resources, Teaching with Documents
• American Indians in Cleveland Exhibition
• The Cleveland Museum of Art
• "The Urban "Half": Resituating the History of Urban Relocation and Public Education" [PDF available]
• Kimberly R. Murphy, UC Berkeley ISSI Fellows Working Papers, January 2010.
• "Trail of Broken Dreams: For American Indians, leaving the reservation was a bittersweet choice. Its official name was relocation. Now it's called genocide." [Audio available]
• Laura Putre, Cleveland Scence, November 23, 2000.
• "Roots of the Native American Urban Experiencce: Relocation Policy in the 1950s"
• Larry W. Burt, American Indian Quarterly, Vol 10, No 2 (Spring 1986), pg 85-99. JSTOR (OSU Link).