25-52 Resolution Approving and Adopting the LaSalle Park Neighborhood Plan (Substitute)

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Neighborhood Landuse Timeline Milwaukee i)..._ . V . 1. 4r11 9 4 � , .. i .. i ]'RAIL OF DEATH _ - p. .n's Enegu. .• - s -4 Syr cm.ogo .l t4u ttiilcti taaL Or north. J ' bank of Twin Lake sera p� rlvr f HADITInNAL YD'rA WATOMI i1DMFLAN US ! ... 800 Yotawatomi Iwlianst were collected in August 1 1838 and I u •` „— •- their long march -to nett , - _ homes in the Nest. Many s s perished n the way. 1628-18305 1838 1860-1900 Colonial& Intertribal Wars Indian Removal Act Kankakee Marsh Drained Fueled by the fur trade competition and occupation by A senes of land cession treaties made between 1795 Soon after the Civil War ended,a 50-plus year ditching the Iroquois.the Miami tribe fled to northern Indiana and 1846 led to the removal of most of the native tribes effort cut z5o meandering river miles.waterways. The Miami asked for aid from others and a large force from Indiana.The Potawatomi and Miami removals and small tributaries down to 90 straightened miles gathered to track down and ambush the Iroquois in the 183os and 1840s were more gradual and destroying 95%of the habitat.In 1884 meetings were near South Bend,leaving a large part of the region incomplete,and not all of Indiana's Native Americans held by landowners in South Bend to discuss the depopulated voluntarily left the state.In 1838 nearly a thousand drainage of the marsh.The upper river was also highly Potawatom people were forcibly removed from channelized with levees to allow easier transport of After the retreat of the Iroquois.the Potawatoml South Bend,pushed to reservations in Kansas on the cut timber from the wetlands to sawmills downstream. became the largest tribal population in the area.In Potawatomi Trail of Death.The Pokagon band was not Following increased settlement and agricultural 1681 La Salle negotiated a treaty with the Miami and forcibly removed because of affiliation with the Catholic development,the Marsh was eventually reduced to Illinois tribes.The French and 39 Indian chiefs signed Church.The Miami were the last to be removed from roughly 10%of its original size. the Great Peace of Montreal in 1701.The Miami tribe Indiana in 1846,but many were permitted to remain returned to take control of Indiana and northwest Ohio under land treaties. The Potawatomi went to Michigan.Peace lasted into the 1720s.