In 1812, there were three visions for the future of Indian Country:
** INDIANS wanted to keep their wide-open land.
** AMERICAN PRESIDENTS wanted to take the Indian land and "turn it into real estate" so land could be bought, sold and developed.
** Trader John Kinzie and Europeans and Americans living on the edge wanted to keep it as it was.
The real story of this whole episode was about three groups of people with drastically different visions of the future. None of the three was "righter" than the others. "The real story of Fort Dearborn is a collision of those visions.
My take on all this was that the Indian vision was "righter" as it was their land originally. I do not blame them for fighting to keep the land. What happened to the Americans was massacre if any of the people surrendered and were still killed.
Hey, horrible things happen in war and this was war.
They're Right and It Was a Massacre. --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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