SHORE LAND | Belmont Harbor

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CREDITS

Interviews:

• Diane Hunter (Miami Tribe of Oklahoma)

• Mona Susan Power (Standing Rock Sioux)

Readers:

• Mark Diaz, JeeYeun Lee, Heather Miller (Wyandotte Nation), Zachary Nicol, Shelby Stone

Songs:

• Special permission for use of Nibi Water Song by Zoongi Gabowi Ozawa Kinew Ikwe (Strong Standing Golden Eagle Woman), Anishnabe Nation, Crane Clan (Ojijak)

• Ieodo Sana folk song, with lead singer Kyung-sung Kim, Northern Jeju region in Jeju Island, South Korea (1989)

Texts: 

• Mona Susan Power, “Chicago Waters,” in Roofwalker (2002) 

• Treaty of Chicago (August 29, 1821)

• “Driveways on Lake Shore, Extension,” Laws of the State of Illinois Enacted by the Thirty-Sixth General Assembly, 212-213 (June 4, 1889)

• “Lincoln, Chicago, Title to Submerged Lands,” Laws of the State of Illinois Enacted by the Thirty-Sixth General Assembly, 214 (June 4, 1889)

• “Lincoln Park Enlargement,” Laws of the State of Illinois Enacted by the Thirty-Eighth General Assembly, 159-160 (June 17, 1893)

• Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett, Plan of Chicago, The Commercial Club of Chicago (1909)

• Nett W. Robbins et al. Appellants, v. The Commissioners of Lincoln Park, Appellee, Illinois Supreme Court (April 21, 1928)

• Chicago Park District lease to U.S. Government (August 28, 1951)

• Last Line of Defense: Nike Missile Sites in Illinois, National Park Service (1996)

• Lincoln Park Framework Plan, Chicago Park District (1995)

Sound:

• Audio editing by JeeYeun Lee

• Sound engineering by Troy Cruz

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