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Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist pwɛ̃ dy sɑbl]; also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe du Sable; [n 1] before 1750 [n 2] – August 28, 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-Native settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the city's founder. [7]
Baron La Croix is often seen wearing a black tailcoat and carrying an elaborate cane, and is considered suave and sophisticated, cultured and debonair. He has an existential philosophy about death, finding death's reason for being both humorous and absurd.
Haitian believe in Lwa/loa/loi which are recognized as spirits in Haitian Vodou. They would similarity compare their spirits to the Catholic saint's characteristics and attributes. Even though Christianity was constantly being forced onto Haitian people, Vodou continued to grow beneath Christian practices/symbolism.
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Many Vodouists believe that a practitioner's spirit dwells in the land of Ginen, located at the bottom of a lake or river, for a year and a day. [433] A year and a day after death, the wete mò nan dlo ("extracting the dead from the waters of the abyss") ritual may take place, in which the deceased's gwo bonnanj is reclaimed from the realm of ...
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Illinois' Haitian population of about 15,000 is much smaller than that of Haitian communities on the East Coast. Illinois' Haitian community is widely dispersed, with small enclaves of Haitian professionals, middle and working-class people and poor, undocumented refugees scattered in small clusters in and around Chicago.
"We have no reason to believe that she is not a US citizen." Springfied officials: 'No credible reports' of crime by Haitian migrants in Ohio Canton woman accused of eating cat pleads not guilty ...