SHORE LAND | Calumet Park

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CREDITS

Interviews:

• Gina Roxas (Prairie Band Potawatomi)

• Adam Kessel (Lakota/Italian)

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 Camp Tippecanoe (October 20, 1832)

• “South Park Board – Conveyance of Submerged Lands,” Laws of the State of Illinois Enacted by the Forty-Third General Assembly, 268-269 (May 14, 1903)

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

• “Sale to American Smelting and Refining Company,” Laws of the State of Illinois Enacted by the Forty-Sixth General Assembly, 432-433 (June 15, 1909)

• “Sale to Illinois Steel Company,” Laws of the State of Illinois Enacted by the Forty-Sixth General Assembly, 434-435 (June 15, 1909)

• “Sale to Iroquois Iron Company,” Laws of the State of Illinois Enacted by the Forty-Sixth General Assembly, 435-436 (June 15, 1909)

• The People ex rel. William J. Scott, Attorney General, et al. v. The Chicago Park District et al. (United States Steel Corporation, Appellant), Illinois Supreme Court (December 3, 1976)

• “Approval of Redevelopment Plan for Chicago Lakeside Development, Phase 1 Tax Increment Financing Redevelopment Project Area [O2010-1867],” by the Committee on Finance, Reports of Committees, Chicago City Council (May 12, 2010) 

• Chicago Area Waterway System (CAWS) Dredged Material Management Plan (DMMP) and Integrated Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (August 2020)

Sound:

• Audio editing by JeeYeun Lee

• Sound engineering by Troy Cruz

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