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Ca. 1681 map of Marquette and Jolliet's 1673 expedition showing a Moingona village along what is now the Des Moines River. The name Moingona was probably the basis for the name of the City of Des Moines, the Des Moines River, and Des Moines County, Iowa. [8] Other names for them mentioned in 1672–73 records were "Mengakoukia," and "Mangekekis ...
Painted hide with geometric motifs, attributed to the Illinois Confederacy by the French, pre-1800. Collections of the Musée du quai Branly. The Illinois Confederation, also referred to as the Illiniwek or Illini, were made up of a loosely organized group of 12 to 13 tribes who lived in the Mississippi River Valley.
In 1707, the population of the community was estimated at 2,200, the majority of them Illinois Indians who lived somewhat apart. A visitor, writing of Kaskaskia about 1715, said that the village consisted of 400 Illinois men, "very good people," two Jesuit missionaries, and "about twenty French voyageurs who have settled there and married ...
Map of the Trace. The Trace was created by millions of migrating bison that were numerous in the region from the Great Lakes to the Piedmont of North Carolina. [2] It was part of a greater buffalo migration route that extended from present-day Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky, through Bullitt's Lick, south of present-day Louisville, and across the Falls of the Ohio River to Indiana, then ...
Illinois Confederation (5 C, 17 P) M. Mitchigamea (1 C, 3 P) P. Potawatomi (9 C, 49 P) Pages in category "Native American tribes in Illinois" The following 12 pages ...
A 2022 article [7] argues the site of the Grand Village of the Illinois, as referred to by the early European explorers, was on the north side of the Sangamon River about 3 miles east of Chandlerville [7]: 54 and that the site near Starved Rock was a seasonal farming village.
Tribes of the Illinois/Missouri Region at First Contact (1673) "The Tribes of The Illinois Confederacy", Rootsweb; Peoria Historical Society, Google Cultural Institute; The History of Chief Baptiste Peoria "Peoria Indians" . Catholic Encyclopedia. 1913. "Peoria. One of the five principal tribes of the Illinois Confederacy" .
The word Cahokia has several different meanings, referring to different peoples and often leading to misconceptions and confusion. Cahokia can refer to the physical mounds, a settlement that turned into a still existing small town in Illinois, the original mound builders of Cahokia who belonged to a larger group known as the Mississippians, or the Illinois Confederation subtribe of peoples who ...