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The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
Ald. Edward M. Burke (14th), the City Council’s resident historian, had hoped to turn the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Fort Dearborn into a “Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation” with descendents of the Native Americans involved in that deadly battle.
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Burke suggested that descendents of the Native Americans involved and of the occupants of Fort Dearborn may want to “smoke a peace pipe” as part of the bi-centennial celebration of the Aug. 15 battle of the War of 1812.
The remark infuriated Joseph Podlasek, executive and technical director of the American Indian Center of Chicago on the North Side, who shook his head as Burke spoke the words.
“That’s very offensive,” said Podlasek. Podlasek even said he warned Burke not to use that expression during an earlier phone conversation, but “he ignored what my advice was to him.”
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