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Half Day – named after Potawatomi Chief Aptakisic, the chief at the time the area was settled. The name, meaning "sun at meridian", was anglicized as "Half Day". Illini. Illini State Park. Illiopolis – The name was formed from Illinois and -polis, a Greek suffix meaning "city". Illiopolis Township. Iuka – named after the Chickasaw Indian ...
Okeechobee County – from the Hitchiti words oki (water) and chobi (big), a reference to Lake Okeechobee, the largest lake in Florida. Osceola County – named after Osceola, the Native American leader who led the Second Seminole War. Sarasota County. Seminole County – named after the Seminole Native American tribe.
July 19, 1964 [2] The Grand Village of the Illinois, also called Old Kaskaskia Village, is a site significant for being the best documented historic Native American village in the Illinois River valley. It was a large agricultural and trading village of Native Americans of the Illinois confederacy, located on the north bank of the Illinois ...
Pages in category "Illinois placenames of Native American origin" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 12 to 13 tribes who lived in the Mississippi River Valley. Eventually member tribes occupied an area reaching from ...
Cahokia Mounds / kəˈhoʊkiə / (11 MS 2) [2] is the site of a pre-Columbian Native American city (which existed c. 1050–1350 CE) [3] directly across the Mississippi River from present-day St. Louis. The state archaeology park lies in south-western Illinois between East St. Louis and Collinsville. [4]
The name and term "Kaskaskia" lives on in Illinois: The Kaskaskia River, whose headwaters are near Champaign in central Illinois, and whose mouth is near Ellis Grove, Illinois, is named for the native nation once settled throughout its estuarial plain. Kaskaskia College is located near Centralia, Illinois, in rural Clinton County.
Characteristic of many of the tribes of the Illinois Confederation, the Cahokia people were primarily migratory, hunting bison and moving with the changing seasons [5] Starting around the 1500s, the Cahokia people began to repopulate the Cahokia region. Unlike their previous Mississippian counterparts, the Illinois Confederation populated areas ...