“the Chicago area, specifically, comprises “the traditional homelands of the Anishinaabe, also known as the Council of the Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Odawa, the Potawatomi Nations, the Myaamia, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac and Fox, Peoria, Kaskaskia, Wea, Kickapoo, (See also “Kickapoo Joy Juice * “), and Mascouten.”
The “traditional homelands” of the American Indians changed hands between the native tribes over generations of warfare long before the arrival of the first European settlers. Much of the Great Sioux Nation, which warred with the United States through the 19th century, was established on territory the Sioux had stolen from the Crow tribe, for instance.
The first English colony in North America was established in 1585 on Roanoke Island, modern-day North Carolina, on land where the regional ruler, Powhatan, had exterminated the local tribe. He did so in deference to a prophecy that he would be overthrown by a nation arising from the area and massacred the English colonists after their ships sailed away for the same reason. This set the stage for the Anglo-Powhatan Wars when more Englishmen arrived to establish the Jamestown colony.”
*A liquor of such stupefying potency that the hardiest citizens of Dogpatch, after the first burning sip, rose into the air, stiff as frozen codfish.
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