Ann Durkin Keating
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is claiming this whole territory.
Chicago in the 1780s and the 1790s.
It's not clear whose territory this is going to be in terms of a European overlords here, whether it's going to be Britain or whether it's going to be the U.S.
After 1795 with the Treaty of Greenville,
it becomes clear that the U.S.
is going to really make inroads into this territory.
And Du Sable isn't interested in living, at least it appears from his exit from this region, when the U.S.
makes it clear that they're going to be in the area.
He doesn't want to be in the area.
We don't know that for sure.
I'm just making a surmise that in 1800, he's gone.
says, we're coming to build a fort.
And he exits and he lives down the rest of his life outside of St.
So there's Algonquian words that would relate it to wild onion, which I think is the smell of a wild onion, is probably where it comes from.
No, no, that's exactly right.