Kenosha History, Native People
Mar. 17th, 2014 08:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogOn the topic of historical research, here's a gem I found while researching Pike Creek. It's not related to my topic, but it's so characteristic of attitudes toward native people at the time that I had to make a note of it. The matter-of-fact way he writes this feels so meaningful to me.
This is an excerpt from the diary of Colonel Michael Frank, a territorial legislator in Wisconsin and proponent of public education. It was through his efforts that Southport (now Kenosha) had what's claimed to be the first free public school outside of New England.
"January 10, 1840: Went to Lyceum in the evening. Question was "Had our forefathers the right to expel the aborigines from any portion of the soil provided they would not leave peaceably?" It was decided in the affirmative."
I would like to be able to hear that discussion.
This is an excerpt from the diary of Colonel Michael Frank, a territorial legislator in Wisconsin and proponent of public education. It was through his efforts that Southport (now Kenosha) had what's claimed to be the first free public school outside of New England.
"January 10, 1840: Went to Lyceum in the evening. Question was "Had our forefathers the right to expel the aborigines from any portion of the soil provided they would not leave peaceably?" It was decided in the affirmative."
I would like to be able to hear that discussion.
