Identifier: chicagomassacreo01kirk (find matches)
Title: The Chicago massacre of 1812 : with illustrations and historical documents
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Kirkland, Joseph, 1830-1894
Subjects: Fort Dearborn Massacre, Chicago, Ill., 1812 Chicago (Ill.) -- History
Publisher: Chicago : Dibble Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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s and muiiths,for the Indians were slow to put an end to their jollifica-tion, an occasion when they were the gtiests of theGovernment, and fared sumptuously with nothing topay. The treaty had still to be ratified by the senatebefore its provisions could be carried out and the settle-ment made. This took about two years. The money paid and the goods delivered, the Indiansshook the dust off their feet and departed ; the dust shak-ing being literal, for once, as they joined, just beforestarting, in a final war-dance. For this strange scene,we fortunately have as witness Ex-Chief Justice Caton.previously qtioted herein. He estimates the dancers ateight hundred, that being all the braves that could bemustered, out of the five thousand members then presentof the departing tribes. The date was August i8th. 1S35.He says : They appreciated that it was their last on their native soil—thatit was a sort of funeral ceremony of old associations and memories, 203 204 THK CHICAGO MASSACRE OF l8l2.
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