The Story of Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable

The Field Museum and DuSable Museum of African American History discuss the life and legacy of Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, the first permanent non-Indigenous settler in Illinois. Bridgette Russell, the Field Museum’s PR Director, moderates a conversation with: Andrea Carlson (Ojibwe), visual artist; Kim L. Dulaney, Ph.D., Director of Education and Programs at DuSable Museum; Courtney Pierre Joseph, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies at Lake Forest College.

They explore DuSable’s journey from Haiti to the Great Plains and his relationships with Native American communities, which helped him become Chicago’s first non-Native settler.
~Additional Resources~
Books/Scholars/Organizations:
-Author Marc O. Rosier reveals ‘Chicago’s Authentic Founder’: https://www.prweb.com/releases/chicagosauthenticfounder/marcorosier/prweb13092091.htm
-DuSable Heritage Association: https://www.dusableheritage.com/history
-Ogimawkwe Mitigwaki (Queen of the Woods), an 1899 novel about Kitihawa by Simon Pokagon: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/6965
-Embassy of Haiti - Washington, D.C.: https://www.haiti.org/dt_team/jean-baptiste-pointe-du-sable/
-Tiya Miles, scholar who researches the intersection of Black and Indigenous lives and histories: https://tiyamiles.com/

Articles:
-WBEZ: The Father of Chicago: Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable: https://www.wbez.org/stories/the-father-of-chicago-jean-baptiste-pointe-dusable/24858f5f-0620-4003-9b84-ac3fe294e1c3
-Chicago Sun-Times: Do Chicagoans know DuSable Had a Native American wife? We should celebrate her, too: https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2021/6/13/22530069/jean-baptiste-point-dusable-kitihawa-native-americans-chicago-history-laura-washington
-Andrea Carlson: Earth is our mothership: https://www.mikinaak.com/blog/the-earth-is-our-mothership-2020

Art:
-Founder, Floating Museum: https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/founders-and-the-cta-interview-with-floating-museums-faheem-majeed-and-jeremiah-hulsebos-spofford/
-YOU ARE ON POTAWATOMI LAND: https://monumentlab.com/bulletin/dont-look-to-my-work-for-reconciliation-a-conversation-with-andrea-carlson

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