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Reader Response: A Critique of the Swenson/McCafferty Linguistic Analysis of The Word "Chicago"
Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Summer 2004 by Weber, Carl J
Notes
1 John F. Swenson, "Chicagoua/Chicago: The Origin, Meaning, and Etymology of a Place Name," Illinois Historical Journal 84 (1991): 235-48.
2 Michael McCafferty, "A Fresh Look at the Place Name Chicago," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 96 (2003): 116-29.
3 Swenson, 237
4 McCafferty, 119.
5 Ibid., 122.
6 I am very curious about why McCafferty did not consult with other Miami/Illinois experts. For such a substantial Amerindian linguistic discovery, a third use of "8," he could have shared with us a second opinion.
7 La Salle Autograph Letter, Sept. 1, 1683. La Salle Collection. Chicago Historical Society.
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8 Margry had a decades-long association with numerous American historians and archivists. These included the great American historian Francis Parkman. Archivist Margry played an important researcher role in getting documents relating to early North American French history into scholars' hands in the United States.
9 The assault against La Salle was reinvigorated by Jean Delangley in the 1930s, and delivered in most recent decades by Lucien Campeau. Contemporary historians like Robert Weddle, instructing us that La Salle was "a failure as a person," a "bi-polar manic depressive" is telling us he, Weddle, has chosen to let the barbed footnotes of Delanglez dangle with impudence. Shea, Delanglez, and Campeau - are the mainstays of the anti-La Salle historical diatribe. They were also, of no small co-incidence, Jesuit apologists. They wrote from a particular point of view that sees La Salle as a dangerous enemy to late 17th century Jesuitism in the New World. McCafferty's contempt and disdain for La Salle speak for themselves.
10 Virgil J. Vogel, "Mystery of Chicago's Name," Mid-America, 40 (1958) 163. He cites a letter written by La Salle, June 5, 1683.
11 Ibid., 165. The map he identified was the 1685 La Louisiane of Minet (first name unknown). Vogel found it in the Sarah Jones Tucker collection, Indian Villages of Illinois Country, Vol. II, Scientific Papers. Illinois State Museum, Part I (Springfield: State of Illinois, 1942) Plate VII. Looking at this map, one sees 'Checago,' which undoubtedly has been confusing to scholarship. There should be a terminal '-u' that was obscured in the photocopying. This is certain because Minet, returning to France in 1685 from the Texas gulf coast on the ship Joly, used a map of La Salle's as a model, and La Salle wrote the word "Checagou."
12 Joseph Ignatius Le Boulanger. "French Miami-Illinois Dictionary." Mss. ca.1720. Newberry Library: Ayer MS 1975, Folio-Flat.
13 Floyd G. Lounsbury. Iroquois Place-Namcs in the Champlain Valley. (Albany: University of the State of New York State Education Department, 1960). Reprinted from the report of the New York-Vermont Interstate Commerce Commission on the Lake Champlain Basin, 1960, Legislative Document 9:23-66.
14 McCafferty, "A Fresh Look at the Place Name Chicago," 116-17.
15 John F. Swenson, "Chicagoua/Chicago: The Origin, Meaning, and Etymology of a Place Name." 246.
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