General
Balesi, Charles. 2014. The Time of the French in the Heart of North America: 1673-1818. Alliance Francaise, Chicago.
Belanger, Claude. http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/quebechistory/frncdns/studies/dcb/3.htm.
Godfrey, George. 2013 Once a Grass Widow. Nishnabek Publications, Athens, IL.
Godfrey, George. 2013. Watchekee (Overseer) Walking in Two Cultures. Nishnabek Publications, Athens, IL.
Howard, Robert P. 1972. Illinois: A History of the Prairie State. William B. Eerdman, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Native People
Prairie Band Potawatomi: https://www.pbpindiantribe.com/
Edmunds, R. David and Joseph L. Peyser. 1993. The Fox Wars: The Mesquakie Challenge to New France. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman.
Edmunds, R. David. 1978. The Potawatomis: Keepers of the Fire. University of Oklahoma Press., Norman.
Horan, James D. 1972. The McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery of American Indians. New York: Bramhall House, New York.
Nelson, John William. 2023. Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago’s Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent. University of North Carolina Press.
Tanner, Helen Hornbeck, ed. 1987. Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman.
White, Richard. 1991. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815. Cambridge University Press.
Early French Explorers
Boissoneault, Lorraine. 2016. The Last Voyageurs: Retracing La Salle’s Journey across America. Pegasus Books, New York. (story of students who recreated the La Salle trip)
Coulter, Tony. 1991. La Salle and the Explorers of the Mississippi. Chelsea House, New York.
Lee, Jacob. 2019. Masters of the Middle Waters: Indian Nations and Colonial Ambitions along the Mississippi. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
Morrissey, Robert Michael. 2017. Le Pays des Illinois Finds Its Context: The Early History of Illinois in a Continental History—A Bicentennial Appraisal. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society Vol. 111 No. 1-2 (Spring/Summer 2017): 9-30.
Walczynski, Mark. 2020. The History of Starved Rock. Cornell University Press, Ithaca.
French Settlement
Barza, Mack. 2023. Cultural Fusion in Frontier Petit Canada: the Rise and Fall of Potawatomi and French-Canadian Relationships in Bourbonnais, Illinois. Presented at Conference Revisiting the History of Little Canadas in the US: Spatial Organization in the 19th and 20th Centuries, University of Southern Maine, October 19-20, 2023: https://video.maine.edu/media/REVISITING+THE+HISTORY+OF+LITTLE+CANADAS+IN+THE+USA+IDENTITY+AND+SPATIAL+ORGANIZATION+IN+THE+19th+and+20th+CENTURIES/1_ccfyua8c
Brown, Margaret Kimball and Lawrie Cena Dean. 1977, 2012 The French Colony in the Mid-Mississippi Valley. Second Edition. Center for French Colonial Studies.
East, Ernest E. 1949. Lincoln and the Peoria French Claims. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society Vol. 42 No. 2 (March 1949): 41-56.
Edmunds, R. David. 2004. Chicago in the Middle Ground. In Grossman, James R., Ann Durkin Keating, and Janice L. Reiff, The Encyclopedia of Chicago. U Chicago Press, 138-143.
Morrissey, Robert Michael. 2015. Empire by Collaboration: Indians, Colonists, and Governments in Colonial Illinois Country. U Pennsylvania Press.
Morrissey, Robert Michael. 2017. Le Pays des Illinois Finds Its Context: The Early History of Illinois in a Continental History—A Bicentennial Appraisal. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society Vol. 111 No. 1-2 (Spring/Summer 2017): 9-30.
Research Sheds New Light on Pierre Menard. https://www.illinois.gov/news/press-release.3272.html#:~:text=Menard%20was%20appointed%20President%20of,serve%20alongside%20Governor%20Shadrach%20Bond.
Brettell, Caroline B.2015 Following Father Chiniquy: Immigration, Religious Schism, and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Illinois. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.
Burroughs, Burt E. 1923. Legends and Tales of Homeland on The Kankakee. Regan Publishing House, Chicago.
Burroughs, Burt E. 1986. The Story of Kankakee’s Earliest Pioneer Settlers. Introduction and Notes by Vic Johnson. Lindsey Publications, Bradley, Illinois.
Captain David Perry website: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dagjones/captdavidperry/index.html
Craven, Jackie. 2019 House Style Guide to the American Home. ThoughtCo. http://architecture.about.com/od/periodsstyles/ig/House-Styles/saratoga-jc-3180005.htm .
“French-Canadians in the Kankakee River Valley.” French Canadians in the Kankakee Valley- IHT 12:2 2005 (niu.edu).
French-Canadian Heritage Tour: https://www.visitkankakeecounty.com/blog/weekend-tour-of-french-canadian-heritage-corridor
Houde, Mary Jean, and John Klasey. 1968 Of The People. Board of Supervisors of Kankakee County, Kankakee, Illinois.
Huggins, Jennifer Hayes. 1988 “The Letourneau Home: Visit reveals a history of family life in an innovative era.” The Sunday Journal. August 7, 1988.
Illinois State Museum. Illinois Indian Homes. https://www.museum.state.il.us/muslink/nat_amer/post/htmls/te_houses.html
Johnson, Vic. 1992 Bradley: 1892-1992, A Centennial History of a Prairie Boomtown. Bradley Centennial Corporation, Bradley, Illinois.
Johnson, Vic. 2004 An Illustrated Sesquicentennial Reader: Kankakee County, Illinois 1853-2003. Kankakee, Illinois: Kankakee County Historical Society, Kankakee, Illinois.
Johnson, Vic and Bourbonnais Grove Historical Society. 2006. Images of America: Bourbonnais. Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, SC.
Kanaga, William F. and Letourneau, George R. (eds.). 1906. History of Kankakee County. In Bateman, Newton and Paul Selby (eds.) Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois. Vol. II. Middle West Publishing Company, Chicago.
Kankakee Gazette, January 4, 1883 (abstracted to The-A-Ki-Ki, Vol. 35#1-2005).
King, Dave. 2010. “Some Thoughts on Migration of French Canadians to Illinois.” Le Journal du Village. Winter 2010. Vol. 36, No. 1. Pages 1, 5, 11-12.
Lebel, Gerard. 1997. Our French Canadian Ancestors. Translated by Thomas J. Laforest. Vol. 3. Lisi Press, Palm Harbor, Florida.
Letourneau, George R. 1901. “Guest Columnist from the Bourbonnais Past.” The Herald. May 13, 1986 issue. Originally published in the Kankakee Gazette, “Reminiscences of An Early Settler.”
Mahoney, Michael R. 2018. Place Names of Kankakee County. Kankakee County Museum, Kankakee, Illinois.
Maternity B.V.M.: Celebrating 150 Years of Education, 1860-2010. 2010. Bourbonnais, Illinois.
Paul, James F. 2016. “A Conversation with Noel LeVasseur”. The Herald. December 6, 2016.
Paul, James F. 2018a. “April 1818: Potawatomi apprehensive about impending Illinois Statehood.” The Herald. April 3, 2018.
Paul, James F. 2018b. “The Story of Twin Oaks—in the words of the Potawatomi of the Year 1834: Prequel (from prehistory to the arrival of Thomas Durham).” The Herald. July 11, 2018.
Paul, James F. 2023. The French-Canadian Heritage Corridor in Northeastern Illinois. Presented at conference Revisiting the History of Little Canadas in the US: Spatial Organization in the 19th and 20th Centuries, University of Southern Maine, October 19-20, 2023: https://video.maine.edu/media/REVISITING+THE+HISTORY+OF+LITTLE+CANADAS+IN+THE+USA+IDENTITY+AND+SPATIAL+ORGANIZATION+IN+THE+19th+and+20th+CENTURIES/1_ccfyua8c
Richard, Adrien M. 1975. The Village: A Story of Bourbonnais. U.S.A.: Published by Centennial Committee of Village of Bourbonnais.
Rosier, Marc O. 2015. Chicago’s Authentic Founder: Jean Baptiste Point DuSable or Haitian Secret Agent in the Old Northwest Outpost 1745-1818. Trafford Publishing.
Illinois Pages