Native American Sites of the Chicago Region - Forest Home Cemetery - Forest Park Illinois
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- In this video, we continue our exploration of Native American sites of the Chicagoland region, with this chapter focused on the story of the Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, Cook County, Illinois, an area which once featured a habitation site and burial place for indigenous people, including the Potawatomi. We'll use both historical and archeological sources and references to guide us in our search,
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IMAGE CREDITS (in order of appearance)
- Forest Park Historical Society, www.forestparkhistory.org
- www.newspapers.com (The InterOcean, Edwardsville Specator, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Evening Post, Chicago Chronicle, News Journal)
- The University of Michigan
- US Library of Congress, www.loc.gov
- www.familysearch.org
- Bing Image Creator
- Chicago Geographic Society
- The Newberry Library
- George Catlin
- www.lookandlearn.com
- www.si.edu/museums/american-art-museum
- Paul Kane
- www.wikipedia.org
- www.chicagology.com
- Amedee Forestier
- drloihjournal.blogspot.com
- DALL-E
- idnc.library.illinois.edu (Sangamon Journal)
- www.wttw.com
- www.potawatomiheritage.com
- US Bureau of Land Management
- www.archive.org (1858 Illinois State Gazeteer, 1863 US Official Register, Chicago: The Garden City, The Wisconsin Archeologist, Indian culture and European trade goods; the archaeology of the historic period in the western Great Lakes region)
- River Forest Historical Society
- University of Chicago Map Collection
- Chicago Academy of Sciences
- Chicago History Museum
- www.findagrave.com (Jim Craig)
- encyclopedia.densho.org
- Forest Park Review
- US Geological Survey
- Oak Park - River Forest Museum
- James VanStone
- Alaska Digital Archives
- Paula Porubcan
- George Quimby
- James Otto Lewis
- Charles Bird King
- Forest Park Public Library
- www.flickr.com (Katherine)
MUSIC CREDITS
- Cinematic Background Music (No Copyright) - Into the Nature Vol 01 by Mu Hanz
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Artist website: www.reverbnation.com/muhanz
- Maestro Tlakaelel by Jesse Gallagher, CZcams Audio Library
- Venkatesananda by Jesse Gallagher, CZcams Audio Library
- Loop Paket 0001 by Sascha Ende
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License (CC BY 4.0): filmmusic.io/standard-license
Artist website: www.sascha-ende.de
SFX CREDITS (FS = www.freesound.org)
- kua-bay-beach-waves (397593) by tombenedict, FS
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- children-playing-with-parents-playground (337637) by ivolipa, FS
- 20100523.sitontop.canoe (97599) by dobroide, FS
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- Digging Sounds, combination of:
Digging with pick axe (138412) by cameronmusic, FS
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Excavation (133424) by gerardhadders, FS
Digging1 (346046) by YemiMoses, FS
Digging a hole (72068) by lorenzosu, FS
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- BBC Sound Effects, #38, Horses & Dogs, #05, "One Horse and cart turned, down hill slowly, comes to stop"
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- Many thanks to the Forest Park Historical Society for their dedication to preserving the community's history.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
00:00:00 Titles and Opening
00:00:23 Introduction
00:01:24 Sources
00:01:45 Prehistory
00:02:35 Native Americans & The French
00:05:50 Treaties & Removal
00:08:31 Bourassa
00:10:35 Haase
00:13:46 Kennicott - 1st Dig
00:15:13 Park Closure & Cemetery
00:17:03 1895 Discoveries
00:23:41 Early 1900s
00:25:57 Haase Monuments
00:27:32 Forest Park Library
00:28:52 VanStone Paper
00:32:53 Illinois State Archeological Survey
00:35:03 Visiting Forest Home
00:39:00 End Titles
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Im slowly watching all your stuff and am delighted with it all. I live a 1/2 mile from this. Your thorough research is great as it fills all the holes in the knowledge ive aquired over the years from local sources. Was not aware of the original size of the mound.
Thank you for your excellent work.
Very glad that you gleaned some new information from this video. It was actually a very interesting story to research and to tell. Thanks for watching our videos and for taking the time to comment. It is much appreciated!
Keep making vids guys…I’ve lived in this area my whole life and they are great.
Thanks for the kind words and the support! It is much appreciated!
Thank you! Your videos are well researched and have very good production values. We should all be greatful for what you are doing here,
Thanks very much for the kind words and support! And thank you for watching and commenting!
Thanks or another great video. BeHistoric is so interesting and so well researched. I love history like this and this series is fantasticlly detailed and you can tell they run down the reseach so well. So glad I came across this channel.
Thanks for watching and the kind words of encouragement! We very much appreciate it - and it makes it all worthwhile.
Thank you for this installment about Forest Home Cemetery in your series on Native American Sites in the Chicago Region! I enjoyed watching this video on the history of Indigenous People in and around the current location of Forest Home Cemetery.
Thanks very much for watching, commenting, and for the continued support! We very much appreciate it! Very glad that you enjoyed this video!
Well Done! I'm smarter now than I was 45 minutes ago having watched this.
Thanks very much for watching the video! Glad that you found it informative and worth the time! Thanks too for the comments and the support!
Thanks for such a well researched and well told story
Very glad that you enjoyed the video! Thank you for watching and commenting!
Very interesting! My parents are buried there!
Thanks for watching and glad that you found the video of interest!
Wow. I lived in that area. Crossed Roosevelt and Desplaines all the time. Not knowing there was once a mound in that cemetery. Shame it was tampered with.
Thanks for the comment and for watching our video! Yes, a great shame that the hill was taken down and levelled out, likely destroying multiple Native American mounds in the process. The Des Plaines river valley has many pre-contact sites along its extended reach north and south, including the Forest Home site. Thanks again!
Thanks for this one. Ten acres is a very large size for a mound. I’m guessing it was used for a very long period of time as a burial site. I think the attitudes of people about archaeology, versus respect for burial sites are pretty contradictory. Look at Egypt. They seem to have few issues about displaying and studying artifacts that were grave goods and even using them to promote tourism. I guess the difference is that if the culture no longer exists, there is nobody to stick up for the mummies, who are resting in anything but peace. If the objects from Indian Hill were never catalogued, we would know a lot less about the trade goods and other issues. Maybe there is a middle ground somewhere, but thanks for your usual diligence.
Thanks for commenting and for the ongoing support! Yes, the hill/mound size suggests it was at least partially a natural feature, perhaps an ancient dune, as part of the sand ridge that runs along that terrace. The descriptions are few and vague - but from what we could gather - there were likely multiple substantial mounds on the surface of this small hill, where burials were placed. Regarding the tension between archeology and indigenous people - indeed, it's a difficult problem. As you say, there is likely middle ground somewhere.
Such sad history. The colonizers were callous and these same methods of cultural genocide are being used by the Israeli colonizers in Palestine. The historical erasure of any peoples is genocide of one’s history. Thank you so much for doing great research for the making of this video. Every culture’s history is important to preserve and pass down. The remains of the people and items should always be returned to the Native tribes who they belong to no matter what part of the world they come from. I wish I knew about what my tribe’s history is. Everyone is beautiful.
Thanks for watching the video and for the thoughtful comments! Indeed there has been great mistreatment of many of the Native American burial mounds and other sacred locations of the past few centuries. Much has been lost. Hopefully, we can be better going forward. Glad that you enjoyed the video and found it interesting!
They just dumped ?
Thanks for the comment! Presumably you are talking about the removal of the Native American remains from the hill - dumping into the Des Plaines River? Yes, sadly this was the case.