The opening chapter of "Chocolate City (2017)" reviews what happened to the Natives of DC very well! (Although I've heard the Fleete story differently.)
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Around 1800, Thomas Jefferson asked about "the name of the Native Americans who lived along the Eastern Branch, no one could answer him."
About 100 years later, in 1918, Margaret Brent Downing wrote:
The Earliest Proprietors of Capitol Hill
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Around 1800, Thomas Jefferson asked about "the name of the Native Americans who lived along the Eastern Branch, no one could answer him."
About 100 years later, in 1918, Margaret Brent Downing wrote:
The Earliest Proprietors of Capitol Hill
Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C.
She complains on page 3. “Few
cities of the larger and more cultured class have
displayed a greater indifference towards the original owners of the land on which it has been built than the National Capital.”
Ms Downing was consistent with this complaint and never mentioned the Natives again in her article.
In 2018, you can visit the American Indian Museum and see this tradition upheld.
Vol. 21 (1918), pp. 1-23 (23 pages) (availble through JSTOR)
Ms Downing was consistent with this complaint and never mentioned the Natives again in her article.
In 2018, you can visit the American Indian Museum and see this tradition upheld.
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