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The Illinois, like many Native American groups, sustained themselves through agriculture, hunting, and fishing. [12] A partially nomadic group, the Illinois often lived in longhouses and wigwams , according to the season and resources that were available to them in the surrounding land.
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 River near the ...
In 1795, in a then minor part of the Treaty of Greenville, a Native American confederation granted treaty rights to the United States in a six-mile parcel of land at the mouth of the Chicago River. [ nb 1 ] [ 2 ] This was followed by the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis , which ceded additional land in the Chicago area, including the Chicago Portage .
Now, Native Americans whose ancestors' remains ended up held for study in sterile, nondescript boxes on shelves in educational facilities or displayed in cultural locales hope a new Illinois law ...
A series of efforts were made by the United States to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream European–American culture between the years of 1790 and 1920. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] George Washington and Henry Knox were first to propose, in the American context, the cultural assimilation of Native Americans . [ 3 ]
The North American Midwest: A Regional Geography (1955) Gjerde, Jon. The Minds of the West: Ethnocultural Evolution in the Rural Middle West, 1830–1917 (1997) Gove, Samuel K. and James D. Nowlan. Illinois Politics & Government: The Expanding Metropolitan Frontier (1996) Hallwas, John E. ed., Illinois Literature: The Nineteenth Century (1986)
Burial mounds have been found along the Illinois River near Peoria from Mossville [4] to Kingston Mines. [5] [6] [7] Artifacts show evidence of Woodland period, Hopewellian, and Mississippian cultures. [8] [9] Several important Native American settlements were located close to Peoria Lake, like the main villages of the Kickapoo and Potawatomi ...
A landmark federal law passed in 1990 called the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, or NAGPRA, requires government agencies, universities and museums to identify pilfered ...