SHORE LAND | Grant Park

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CREDITS

Interview:

• Madolyn Wesaw (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi)

Potawatomi language recordings: 

• Kyle Malott (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi)

Excerpt: 

• Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg), “Restoring Nationhood: Addressing Land Dispossession in the Canadian Reconciliation Discourse,” Simon Fraser University (November 13, 2013). Used with permission.

Readers:

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

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: 

• Treaty of Chicago (September 26, 1833)

• Williams v. Chicago, U.S. Supreme Court (January 8, 1917)

• Illinois Central Railroad Company v. Illinois, U.S. Supreme Court (December 5, 1892)

• “Lake Front Park,” Municipal Code of the South Park Commissioners with General Laws and Special Ordinances, Approved March 1897, 162-165 (August 1, 1896)

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

• City of Chicago v. Ward et al,, Illinois Supreme Court (November 8, 1897)

• Bliss et al. v. Ward et al., Illinois Supreme Court (October 9, 1902)

• Ward v. Field Museum of Natural History et al., South Park Commissioners v. Ward et al., Illinois Supreme Court (October 26, 1909)

• South Park Commissioners v. Montgomery Ward & Co. et al., Same v. S. Karpen & Bros. et al., Illinois Supreme Court (December 21, 1910)

• Lakefront Plan of Chicago, Chicago Plan Commission, City of Chicago and Chicago Park District (1972)

• Grant Park Framework Plan, Chicago Park District (2002)

Sound:

• Audio editing by JeeYeun Lee

• Sound engineering by Troy Cruz

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