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Watseka or Watchekee (c. 1810–1878) was a Potawatomi Native American woman, born in Illinois, and named for the heroine of a Potawatomi legend. Her uncle was Tamin, the chief of the Kankakee Potawatomi Indians.[1]
In 1824, at age ten, she became engaged to Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, whom she married at age fourteen or fifteen. Hubbard and Watseka had two children, both of whom died in infancy.[citation needed] They mutually dissolved the union in 1826.[2] Watseka married Noel Le Vasseur at age eighteen, and was described as "beautiful, intelligent and petite."[3] She had three children with Le Vasseur, who learned to speak the Potawatomi language. In 1836, she left for Council Bluffs, Iowa, where her tribe had been removed in 1832 following the Treaty of Camp Tippecanoe. She died in Council Bluffs in 1878.[3]
"French-Canadian Francis Xavier Bergeron arrived in the Great Lakes region as a young man where he met Watseka on one of her trips back to the region. In 1840, she received the Christian name Josette or Zozetta upon her baptism. She and Francis wed around that same time, but it was not her first marriage. Before marrying Bergeron, she had two other husbands named Noel LeVasseur and Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard. She had four children: Jean Batiste, Catherine (Kate), Matilda and Charlie." (https://www.potawatomiheritage.com/encyclopedia/watseka-daughter-of-the-evening-star/)
A city in East Central Illinois may have been named in her honor.
References
- ↑ "History". Village of Bourbonnais. Archived from the original on 2012-10-30. Retrieved 2012-12-10. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Hubbard Trading Post marker - Iroquois, IL". Illinois Historical Markers on Waymarking.com. Retrieved 2012-12-10.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Obituary for Noel LeVasseur". Watseka Republican. 1879-12-25. Retrieved 2012-12-10.
- Beckwith, H. W. (1880). History of Iroquois County, Together with Historic Notes on the Northwest. Chicago: H. H. Hill and Company. pp. 114–115. Retrieved 2010-10-15. Search this book on
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