She was the wife of explorer Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, a and in some's eyes, a co-founder of Chicago.
This Women's History Month, we're highlighting a hidden figure in Chicago's story; a woman you might have never heard of, because she's not often talked about.
Her story is not often told. There are no exhibits, no statues, or books about Kitihawa DuSable, but now there's a mobile monument. "As they always say, the colloquial anecdotal saying, who was the woman behind the man," said Dr. Courntey Joseph, a Lake Forest College assistant professor writing a book about Mr. and Mrs. DuSable."An indigenous woman, who he marries; a woman of Potawatomi descent named Kitihawa. And for as little as we know about DuSable, we know even less about her.""Kitihawa and her people were established in the Great Lakes. He came into that.
"To then say this is a city that was really started and thrived and flourished under an indigenous woman and a Black man of Haitian decent. That doesn't fit the story," Joseph added."So it's not surprising to me that they get virtually ignored, and in some ways written out of the history."
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