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I can clearly detect pride and passion in Etzer Cantave's voice when he tells me about DuSable's cultural background and his affinity with the indigenous population of the Lake Michigan, Chicago river area way back when.
After all, DuSable ended up marrying a local indigenous woman by the name of Kittahawa, who belonged to the Pottawatomie Nation.
And one of the reasons why Etzer Cantave feels so passionate about that story is that the so-called melting pots of that era were not located in the United States of America, which actually still consisted of 13 British colonies back East.
No, they were located in French-speaking and indigenous language-speaking areas such as Haiti, Quebec, and today's Chicago.
Just the name of the city tells a story about the location of Jean-Baptiste Pointe Du Sable's new home close to the onion and garlic fields at the mouth of the Chicago river. Chicago comes from the Pottawatomie word 'Shikaakwa', which French explorers transcribed as 'Checagou', when they first heard it pronounced by the local Natives.
It means 'stinky onion', or 'smelly onion' referring to the predominant fragrance that turned out to be too prohibitive for any settlement, until Jean-Baptiste Pointe Du Sable came along.

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from Let's talk about it, anywhere in the world # 1: Etzer Cantave about Jean​-​Baptiste Pointe DuSable, released December 30, 2021

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