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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.
The Illinois - State Museum of Illinois; Tribes of the Illinois/Missouri Region at First; 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 ...
Populations are the total census counts and include non-Native American people as well, sometimes making up a majority of the residents. The total population of all of them is 1,043,762. [citation needed] A Bureau of Indian Affairs map of Indian reservations belonging to federally recognized tribes in the continental United States
Federalism and the State Recognition of Native American Tribes: A survey of State-Recognized Tribes and State Recognition Processes Across the United States. University of Santa Clara Law Review, Vol. 48. Sheffield, Gail (1998). Arbitrary Indian: The Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-2969-7.
House Bill 1633, spearheaded by state Rep. Maurice West of Rockford and supported by several others, aims to make it a requirement for Illinois schools to teach a unit of Native American history.
Mascoutah – a derivative of the Mascouten tribe. Mendota – The name "Mendota" is derived from a Native American word meaning "junction of two trails". Menominee – Named after the Menominee Indian tribe. Menominee River; Little Menominee River
The tribes of the Illinois Confederation faced much relocation during this century, as various attacks from other tribes took place. In 1673 when French explorers Jolliet and Marquette made contact with the region, the Illini occupied various corners of the midwest, with the Cahokia and Tamaroa occupying western Illinois and eastern Missouri.