Anne Keating doesn't see it as a massacre as do many historians and Native-Americans. But the effort to rid the action of the name "Massacre" has prompted many to call it "political correctness" and "historical revisionism."
Words have power and "massacre" has a particularly bad connotation for the side "guilty" of it. It "demonized" the Indians. At the dedication of the Fort Dearborn sculpture in 1893, the director of the Chicago Historical Society called the Indians "invaders" and "barbarians."
The word "Massacre" was used by Americans after the battle to rally the troops and led to attacks by U.S. forces on Indian villages. The battle itself was partly in revenge for an attack by Americans on the Indian village of Tippecanoe ten months earlier.
According to Keating, the real invaders were the Americans.
More to Come. --Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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