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Head of the Fox River, Wisconsin; Chicago village 1673 St. Joseph River Village, Michigan (River of the Miamis) (Fr), Kalamazoo River Village, Michigan 1703 Detroit village, Michigan 1720–63 Miami River locations, Ohio Scioto River village (near Columbus), Ohio 1764 Wabash River villages, Indiana 1831 Indian Territory (Oklahoma)
The 1833 Treaty of Chicago was an agreement between the United States government and the Chippewa, Odawa, and Potawatomi tribes. It required them to cede to the United States government their 5,000,000 acres (2,000,000 ha) of land (including reservations) in Illinois, the Wisconsin Territory, and the Michigan Territory and to move west of the Mississippi River.
BOSS-kee / ˈ b ɒ s k i / Bossier City, Louisiana: BOH-zhər / ˈ b oʊ ʒ ər / Bowie, Maryland: BOO-ee / ˈ b uː i / Also the place in Texas Buena, New Jersey: BEW-nə / ˈ b juː n ə / Buena, Washington: BEW-en-ə / ˈ b juː ɛ n ə / Buena Vista, Colorado: BEW-nə-VISS-tə / ˌ b juː n ə ˈ v ɪ s t ə / Name of multiple places Buck ...
Koh Sok Hiong (Chinese: 许淑香; 5 July 1916 – 7 July 2018), also known as Ms Wee Kim Wee, was a Singaporean philanthropist and chef who served as the 4th Spouse of the President of Singapore from 1985 to 1993, of President Wee Kim Wee. Born in Singapore during colonial rule, Koh studied at Nanyang Girls' High School before marrying Wee in ...
Land ceded by the treaty of Fond du Lac in 1847, designated 268 (green) on the map. The second treaty of Fond du Lac was signed by Issac A. Verplank and Henry Mower Rice for the United States and representatives of the Ojibwe of Lake Superior and the Mississippi on August 2, 1847, proclaimed on April 7, 1848, and codified as 9 Stat. 904.
Irish-Americans have had a presence on the South Side since the 19th century. Since the 19th century, the ethnic Irish population in Chicago had been largely Catholic, and largely concentrated on the city's south side. Irish Catholics were often economically disenfranchised compared to other European ethnic groups, and often faced anti-irish sentiment or eth
Watseka or Watchekee (c. 1810–1878) was a Potawatomi Native American woman, born in Illinois, and named for the heroine of a Potawatomi legend.Her uncle was Tamin, the chief of the Kankakee Potawatomi Indians.
Southern brown kiwi communicate vocally to aid in defending their territory. They will also sing duets with each other, with the male shrill "kee-wee" or "kee-kee" and the females hoarse " kurr kurr". [7] Males are more vocal and they both call in an upright position with their legs stretched out and their bill pointing up. [3]