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  2. List of Illinois placenames of Native American origin - Wikipedia

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    Illinois Caverns State Natural Area; Johnson-Sauk Trail State Recreation Area; Kickapoo State Recreation Area; Kishwaukee River State Fish and Wildlife Area; Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie – The name Midewin (/mɪˈdeɪwɪn/, mi-DAY-win) is a Potawatomi word referring to the tribe's healers. Mississippi River State Fish and Wildlife Area

  3. Illinois Confederation - Wikipedia

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    The Tribes of The Illinois Confederacy; Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Lenville J. Stelle, Inoca Ethnohistory Project: Eye Witness Descriptions of the Contact Generation, 1667 - 1700; Texts on Wikisource: "Illinois, a confederacy of five tribes of North American Indians". Collier's New Encyclopedia. 1921. "Illinois Indians".

  4. List of place names of Native American origin in the United ...

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    The name "Wyoming" comes from a Delaware Tribe word Mechaweami-ing or "maughwauwa-ma", meaning large plains or extensive meadows, which was the tribe's name for a valley in northern Pennsylvania. The name Wyoming was first proposed for use in the American West by Senator Ashley of Ohio in 1865 in a bill to create a temporary government for ...

  5. Category:Native American tribes in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Native American tribes in Illinois" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.

  6. Category : Illinois placenames of Native American origin

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    Winnebago County, Illinois This page was last edited on 6 October 2022, at 02:24 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...

  7. Peoria people - Wikipedia

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    The Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma is headquartered in Miami, Oklahoma. [2] Their tribal jurisdictional area is in Ottawa County, in the northeast corner of the state. Of the 3,713 enrolled tribal members, some 777 live within the state of Oklahoma. Craig Harper is the tribe's elected Chief, and is serving a four-year term. [1]

  8. List of federally recognized tribes by state - Wikipedia

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    States with no federally recognized tribes are marked in gray. Federally recognized tribes are those Native American tribes recognized by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs as holding a government-to-government relationship with the US federal government. [1] For Alaska Native tribes, see list of Alaska Native tribal entities.

  9. List of sports team names and mascots derived from indigenous ...

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    Bartle earned his nickname as founder of the Tribe of Mic-O-Say, a regional Boy Scouts honor camping society in which he was "Chief" Lone Bear. In 1989, the Chiefs switched from Warpaint , a Pinto horse ridden by a man in a feathered headdress, to their current mascot K. C. Wolf .