- “The Indian Boundary Line”
Rogers Avenue and Forest Preserve Drive were once the disputed border that separated the United States’ Louisiana Territory from Indian country—the line over which settlers fought the settlers fought the Sauk, Fox, Kickapoo and other tribes for control of the land in the 1832 Black Hawk War.
But in researching his experimental documentary The Indian Boundary Line, “my ideas about colonialism became complicated,” says Thomas Comerford.
“I found stories of friendship and cooperation and interracial marriages, in addition to the more expected stories of conflict: the ‘massacre,’ the treaty, and Manifest Destiny.”
Comerford, who is also frontman for local rockers Kasper Hauser, premieres The Indian Boundary Line Thursday 2/4 in the Gene Siskel Film Center’s weekly Conversations at the Edge series.