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Land Acknowledgment

Chicago is the traditional homelands of the Council of the Three Fires: The Odawa, Ojibwe and Potawatomi Nations. Many other Tribes like the Miami, Ho-Chunk, Sac and Fox also called this area home. American Indians continue to call this area home and now Chicago is home to the third largest Urban American Indian community that still practices their heritage, traditions and care for the land and waterways.

-American Indian Center of Chicago 


       
                                                                                                                                                 
 Map of Indian trails and villages of Chicago and of Cook, DuPage and Will counties in 1804.
Map by Albert F. Scharf, 1900-1901. Villages highlighted in green;
principle trails in red and waterways in blue.
 
Photograph: Chicago History Museum/Getty Images
 

                           

   

                             

Map of American Indian trails and villages
Map of American Indian trails and villages of Chicago, Illinois, and Cook, DuPage, and Will Counties, Illinois, in 1804. By Albert F. Scharf in 1900-1901. This view includes the area between Madison Street, Chicago, Illinois, and Skokie, Illinois. The Green Bay Trail is highlighted in red.

                                                                        

Photograph: Chicago History Museum/Getty Images

November is Native American Heritage Month

 

 

Native American Heritage Month is observed in November to call attention to the culture, traditions, and achievements of the nation’s original inhabitants and of their descendants.

 

The official designation of November as National Native American Heritage Month was signed into law in 1990. The celebration is sometimes referred to as American Indian Heritage Month.

 

See U.S. Federal Court web page about Native American Heritage Month.

November 24 is Native American Heritage Day

Native American Nations Traditional Names and Locations

                                                                Tribal Nations Maps