PIONEER HUNTFCRS OF THE KANKAKEE 

 lands that was ever placed on the pages of his- 

 tory. We will ship a period of eight years over 

 Pottowattomie land. No events of any great 

 importance occured then. Indian Territory be- 

 came a State, Fort Dearborn v/as again garri- 

 soned. The French held the ascendancy in 

 influence in this region and were held in the 

 highest regard by the Indians. In 1821 the 

 white hunters began to come to the Kankakee 

 region. The day before General Harrison start- 

 ed on his march up the Wabash to meet the 

 Prophet, two young men volunteered to join the 

 army, by the names of Daniel Scott and Aike 

 Haskins. They had a cousin in the army, an 

 officer named Atwood, who was wounded at the 

 Battle of Tippecanoe. Having a broken leg, he 

 was picked up and carried away to the Kanka- 

 kee swamps, about sixty miles distant, and was 

 cared for by a squaw, taking the place of her 

 son who had been killed. In 1821 Scott and 

 Haskins came north to the Kankakee region in 

 search of their lost relative. As there was a 



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