BE THE CHANGE SO THAT WE CAN ALL SEE !!! LIKE THIS POST TO BRING VOICE---- https://facebook/DuSableCounty2016 Chicago =“shikaakwa,” which means “striped skunk” or “smelly onion”. The Pottawatomie Indigenous peoples (Native Americans/Latinos to the north), it is stated, named places by the nature of the sights, sounds and smells of the environment at the time. The Pottawatomie Indians (Latinos to the North) were living and trading, long before the City of Chicago was established. This would change when Jean Baptiste DuSable (Haitian American) married a Pottawatomie woman named Kitihawa (Later it is stated that her name was changed to Catherin) and set up trade with American Explorers from the Southern states and Eastern States at a trading post on what is now Kinze St. near the East Bank Club in Chicago circa 1790. DuSable would leave the most prosperous area in the Midwest at the time, under what some have speculated were questionable circumstances. There are varying accounts of his departure but none provide concrete evidence. However, I would be remiss if it were not noted that during the aforementioned time frame circa 1791–1804 the only successful slave revolution in the post transatlantic slave trade era was taking place. The Haitian Slave revolt. A successful slave uprising, it could be surmised, might deter immigrants from the East Coast and Europe who might become a unsettled at the prospect that a man of Haitian decent was doing well and could possibly lead such a revolt in the Americas. To be specific it could really be unsafe in Chicago were a man of Haitian decent was making the most of his situation. None of this would have been good for business back East and to the South*. As we can see to this very day the Haitian slave revolt wasnt good for business after the people of Haiti overthrew the French government too gain its independence. The country is now the poorest in the Western Hemisphere. Despite the fact that the people at one time had the largest sugar field crops and profits in the entire New World selling to both Europe as well as the South and North Americas. As a native son of Haiti, Jean Baptiste DuSable, may have been seen as more of a threat to the economic boom than as the co-founder (Pottawatomie and his wife Kitihawa) of what would quickly become one of the wealthiest cities in the world. By enlarge he is all but forgotten in Chicago as is Chicago’s connection to Haiti and even less known is the connection of the Pottawatomie (Latino to the North) and even less still is the reflected upon the connections that Haitians (Today African-Americans) and Pottawatomie (Latino to the North) have to one another. Peace, Love, and Truth... BE THE CHANGE!!! ******Look at a map of the US and know that the Chicago River feeds into the Mississippi and into Lake Michigan or in other words it is the intersection of both the entire East Coast and to access to the Southern States at a time when a car was a mystery, which is why DuSables post was seen as so profitable.********* Original work by Paul H Pearson https://facebook/DuSableCounty2016
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 08:37:48 +0000
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