Editing Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (section)

===Departure from Chicago===
Point du Sable left Chicago in 1800. He sold his property to [[Jean La Lime]], a trader from [[Quebec]], and moved to the Missouri River valley, at that time part of Spanish Louisiana. The reason for his departure is unknown.<ref name="Quaife1933p43" /> By 1804, John Kinzie, another early Chicago settler, had bought the former du Sable house. Kinzie's daughter-in-law, Juliette Magill Kinzie, suggested in her 1852 memoir that "perhaps he [du Sable] was disgusted at not being elected to a similar dignity [great chief] by the Pottowattamies".<ref>{{Harvnb|Kinzie|1856|p=191}}</ref>

In 1874, Nehemiah Matson elaborated on this story, claiming that Point du{{nbsp}}Sable was a slave from Virginia who had moved with his master to [[Lexington, Kentucky]], in 1790. According to Matson, Point du{{nbsp}}Sable became a zealous Catholic in order to convince a Jesuit missionary to declare him chief of the local Native Americans, but after they refused to accept him as their chief, he left Chicago.<ref>{{cite book|last=Matson|first=Nehemiah|title=French and Indians of Illinois River|year=1874|publisher=Republican Job Printing Establishment|pages=[https://archive.org/details/frenchindiansofi00mats/page/187 187]–191|url=https://archive.org/details/frenchindiansofi00mats|access-date=7 September 2010}}</ref> Quaife dismisses both of these stories as being fictional.<ref name="Quaife1913p139" />

In her 1953 novel, Graham suggests that Point du Sable left Chicago because he was angered that the [[Federal government of the United States|US government]] wanted him to buy the land on which he had lived and called his own for the previous two decades.<ref>{{Harvnb|Graham|1953|pp=161–167}}</ref> The 1795 [[Treaty of Greenville]], which ended the [[Northwest Indian War]], and the subsequent westward migration of Native Americans away from the Chicago area might also have influenced his decision.<ref name="Pacyga13" />{{#tag:ref|The Treaty of Greenville ceded Native-American rights to a substantial amount of territory in what is now the Midwest, including "[o]ne piece of land six miles square, at the mouth of Chikago river".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/greenvil.asp |title=The Treaty of Greenville 1795 |website=Yale University – Avalon Project |access-date=25 January 2018}}</ref>|group=n}}