The First Inhabitants of Chicago
According to an old Chicago history record pointing to the Chicago River, the first people who happened to inhabit the area were the Algonquian people, Mascoutens and the Miamis. These Algonquian people were said to be the cradle of the highest population in the Northern American native and tribes. The Mascoutens on the other hand were native Americans but also Algonquian-speaking while the Miamis were considered as people of native American tribe who dwell in Indiana and Ohio but are now living also in Oklahoma.
Merging with Nearby Dwellers
Since in the early times, Chicago is also a center for trade and also because of hunting expeditions by Chicago tribes, the history allowed the merging of the people from the residing neighbor tribes and resulted in a mixture of tribal race coming from the three local dwellers of Chicago and the neighboring ones in Potawatomis, Fox and Illinois. These three tribes came from East, North and the most important part of Chicago’s history, Illinois from the Southwest.
Chicago, Illinois was Born
Tribes from the Southwest named as Illinois, upon merging with the locals of Chicago actually became the first step to producing the name of Chicago, Illinois. Chicago actually came from the French version of the mixture of the Miami and Illinois word, the shikaakwa, meaning “skunk”, a common name for plants that grow beside the Chicago River.
Chicago River Became a Transport Hub
On it’s location in the middle of the Chicago River and the Des Plains River, the French explorers saw first Chicago by the name of Louis Jolliet and Henri Joutel. Both had seen the strategic location could do good as a transportation center and in 1963, the French explorers who were called as Jesuits tried to accomplish a mission to spread Christianization on the areas of Wea and Miami through this transportation hub by the Chicago River called as Fort Checagou which was later on abandoned because of the Fox Wars. Potawatomis since then inhabited the land area in 1700’s.
The First Chicago Non-Native Settler
In 1770, Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, the first non-native Haitian who settled in Chicago married a Potawatomi woman and stayed near Chicago River. After the Indian War in 1795, Chicago was again occupied by native Americans through the Treaty of Greenville became a military post and since then many special things happened in Chicago as continued settlers inhabited the land in the 1800’s by the Potawatomis. Since moving and settling by local natives were a common behavior of the early Chicago people, there were also early unproven beliefs that are not documented that people help each other collectively by local moving or settling. This was believed to be the first people who got involved in Chicago Moving Services but without a single payment and it could be that if this system already revolutionized through time, Chicago Movers would have been born in the early Chicago history.