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| IQB # | IQB-518 |
| Title | Kittihawa-DuSable/Chicago/U.S.A. |
| Honoree | DuSable, Kittihawa, -1809 |
| Type of Honoree | Individual |
| Location of Honoree |
United States Illinois Chicago (Ill.) Great Lakes Region (North America) |
| Contributor |
Pilot, Joan M. Chicago DuSable League |
| Location of Contributor |
United States Illinois Chicago (Ill.) |
| Date Made | 1981-10-19 |
| Biography of Contributor | Mrs. Pilot, a housewife and self-taught black historian, was born and raised in Chicago. She considers herself but one link in a chain that has been connected together in Chicago to keep the name DuSable alive and well. |
| Contributor's History / Reason for Honor | Exact date of birth unknown, probably around 1755, somewhere in the Great Lakes Area of the U.S.A. Died 1809 in Illinois. / Her home was around the Great Lakes of the Midwest. She was of the Pottawatomi Great Tribe and that is where most of them lived. / She was chosen because she was the legal wife of the very first permanent settler of the city of Chicago, a black man, Jean Baptiste Point DuSable. Without her help and her people's help, the Pottawatomi Indians, DuSable would not have prospered like he did. He became a very wealthy man, we know this from documented evidence of a bill of sale where he sold his extensive holdings. She and her husband moved to Chicago in 1774. Her daughter was born in 1775. She had a son also. We honor her thereby honoring all Indian women who worked and helped all the non-Indiana [Indian?] men survive physically and mentally in this unfolding of the midwest chapter of USA history. / [POEM]: DuSable / by Joan M. Pilot / (1) Listen my children and you shall hear / When in 1779 DuSable arrived here, / Chicago was just a wilderness / Til this black man came, but not to rest. / With his Indian wife by his side, / He cleared the land so long -- so wide, / They worked so hard, and they worked so long / That's why we're here reciting this poem. / (2) He built a lodge house and a trading post, / He became a wealthy man that cared the most / About Chicago and how it grew / Cause he loved the land and the lake so blue. / We are proud of this handsome man, / Cause he was the father of Chicagoland / It gives us great joy to speak his name / Remembering him -- go seek your fame. / (3) The truth of Chicago's history / Shouldn't be denied to you and me / So let us learn to honor everyone / Who helped to make Chicago big and strong / Please don't forget the man who first here came / Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable was his name / So lets continue to honor his deeds -- HOW??? / By doing well in school and learn how to read...... / and how to think, to love, and to care!! |
| Contributor's Description | This quilt piece is made of buckskin with an Indian beaded necklace as its focal point. There are 2 bells with feathers also included on the piece. I see my piece as representing Indian women's uterused [uteruses?] and the bells representing ovaries, the beads are the many eggs that were needed to concieve [sic] the children of America's future generations. |
| Data Sources | Documentation information, from Joan M. Pilot, Chicago DuSable League; "DuSable" poem by Joan M. Pilot; article: "Honoring Chicago's Black Father", Sun Reporter, August 14, 1980 (includes photo: Joan Pilot in Indian garb); newspaper Q&A [source?]: question regarding Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, answered by Joan Pilot; quilt. |
| Cataloguing Notes | [AEF 2015]: The following fields contain information directly quoted from the original documentation: Biography of Contributor; Contributor's History/Reason for Honor; Contributor's Description. / Potawatomi Tribe is an official Library of Congress heading. |
| Rights | The University of Louisville welcomes fair use of this website and its contents. To download a digital version of this item, use its Reference URL (found by following the link in the header above the digital file). If you require a higher resolution image, or further information about publications, broadcasts, or public displays of collection items, please contact the IHQ Project at ihqinfo@louisville.edu. |
| Collection Website | http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/ihq/ |
| Digital Publisher | University of Louisville Hite Art Institute |
| Format | image/jp2 |
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| Title | IQB-518a |
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