Feb. 27, 2016_Additional comment by William Arthur Allen: Versions of Wikipedia in three diferent languages provide slightly different information about Point du Sable and his marriage to Kitahawa, a Potawatomi woman. The Spanish language account when translated to English at Wikipedia, states "du Sable and a friend, Jacques Clamorgan, traveled to Louisiana and Michigan , where he married a woman Potawatomi called Kittahawa ("fast-footed") . To marry her, Jean Baptiste, then 25, became a member of his tribe, taking uam eagle as its symbol tribal. [ 7 ] Potawatomi called him the "Chief Black", and acquired a high status in the tribe. They had a son and a daughter, Jean and Susanne." The second (English) Wikipedia account is expressed as follows, "Point du Sable married a Potawatomi woman named Kitihawa (Christianized to Catherine) on October 27, 1788 in a Catholic ceremony in Cahokia, an old French missionary town on the Mississippi River.[14] – it is likely they were earlier married in the 1770s in the Native American tradition – they had a son named Jean and a daughter named Susanne.[15]" The third account in French gives even more information about Kitihawa being the daughter of an unnamed Potawatomi chief . "Déjà marié depuis des années avec Kitihawa, la fille d'un chef local Potawatomi, selon un rite amérindien, il l'épouse à nouveau à la Mission de Sainte Famille de Caoquias, en 1787 4 selon certaines sources, ou le 27 octobre 1788, selon d'autres sources, lors d'une cérémonie catholique5. Il aura avec Kitihawa (dont le prénom a été christianisé en Catherine)1 un fils, Jean et une fille, Suzanne."

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