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The Peoria are a Native American people. They are enrolled in the federally recognized Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma headquartered in Miami, Oklahoma. [2] The Peoria people are the remnants of the nations which constituted the Illinois Confederation. The Peoria Tribe were located east of the Mississippi River and north of the Ohio River. [2]
This is a list of federally recognized Native American Tribes in the U.S. state of ... Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma: Peoria, Kaskaskia, Piankeshaw, Wea [5 ...
The treaty also provided for opening the Peoria-Kaskaskia and the Wea-Piankashaw reserves in Kansas to settlement by non-Indians [16] Eventually, the remnants of these tribal groups reorganized under the name of the Confederated Peoria. They are now known as the federally recognized "Peoria Tribe of Indians" and reside in present-day Oklahoma. [17]
With increased Euro-American settlement and the United States's policy of Indian removal, the US federal government made many treaties with these tribes. In 1854, the Wea signed a treaty that merged them politically with other remnant tribes of the Illinois Confederacy to become the Confederated Peoria Tribe. The Miami people also joined the ...
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.
Pages in category "Peoria tribe" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The original Peoria (there are Native Americans still living who claim Peoria blood) were one of the principal tribes of the once-strong Illinois Confederation and had a language of the Algonquian family.
Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, [1] other tribes within the Miami-Illinois Confederacy The Moingona or Moingwena ( Miami-Illinois : mooyiinkweena ) [ 2 ] were a historic Miami-Illinois tribe. They may have been close allies of or perhaps part of the Peoria .