Juliette M. Kinzie (1806–1870)
Teoksen Wau-Bun: The "Early Day" in the Northwest tekijä
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Narrative of the Massacre at Chicago, August 15, 1812, and of Some Proceeding Events (2018) 3 kappaletta
Walter Ogilby a novel 1 kappale
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- Virallinen nimi
- Kinzie, Juliette Augusta Magill
- Muut nimet
- Kinzie, Mrs. John H.
- Syntymäaika
- 1806-09-11
- Kuolinaika
- 1870-09-15
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Middletown, Connecticut, USA
- Kuolinpaikka
- Amagansett, New York, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Fort Winnebago, Wisconsin
Chicago, Illinois, USA - Ammatit
- historian
memoirist
writer
novelist - Suhteet
- Low, Juliette Gordon (granddaughter)
- Lyhyt elämäkerta
- Juliette Augusta Magill was born in Middletown, Connecticut to a family descended from statesmen and businessmen dating back to the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. When she was 14, the family moved to New York State. She was tutored in Latin and other languages by her mother and uncle, and briefly attended boarding school in New Haven, Connecticut, and Emma Willard's school in Troy, New York. In 1830, she married John H. Kinzie, a fur trader, and moved with him to Detroit. Together they traveled by boat to Fort Winnebago, in the area that is now Wisconsin, which guarded the portage between the Fox and Wisconsin rivers. Her husband was assigned by the U.S. government as an agent to the Winnebago people. They lived there three years and had the first of their seven children. After the treaty ending the Sauk War of 1832 forced the Winnebago to move west of the Mississippi River, the Kinzies moved to Chicago, Illinois, where his family owned a tract of land bordering the Chicago River and Lake Michigan. Juliette Kinzie became active in charitable and church activities, including helping to found St. Luke's Hospital and the Chicago Historical Society. In 1844, she published her first book, Narrative of the Massacre at Chicago, August 15, 1812, and of Some Preceding Events. Her second book Wau-Bun: The "Early Day" in the North West (1856), recounted her experiences at Fort Winnebago as well as those of her mother-in-law and other relatives during the Black Hawk War. Both books were unusual for their day in being sympathetic to Native Americans displaced by white settlers. In 1869, she published a novel, Walter Ogilby. These works and her letters and journals provide acute and valuable observations of life on the American frontier and the establishment of the city of Chicago. Her namesake granddaughter Juliette Gordon Low became the founder of the Girl Scouts of America in 1912.
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WAU-BUN translates in Ojibwa to "the dawn - the break of day"
and is a definite metaphor for the lives of Juliette and her husband, the newly appointed agent
for The Old Indian Agency House in Portage, Wisconsin.
There was no way to anticipate the changes and dangerous challenges that dominated their new existence
during the years 1830-1833 at Fort Winnebago. Juliette's evocative landscape drawings illuminate their historical passage.
Though the Kenzies express honest and almost total understanding of the horror of all the Indian land being forever stolen,
they are also, in their Christian way, condescending and superior to the Indians. Slavery is not a major concern.
Readers may hope that her husband finally has the courage to simply not join Juliette's latest travel caprices and guides her
to listen to more experienced and wiser travelers.
Her account of the Massacre at Chicago was horrifying and unexpected.… (lisätietoja)