Kaskaskia
Illinois Indian of the Kaskaskia Tribe, engraving based on drawing by General Georges-Henri-Victor Collot, 1796[1]
The Kaskaskia were one of the Native American tribes of the Northeastern Woodlands. They were one of about a dozen cognate tribes that made up the Illiniwek Confederation (also called the Illinois Confederation). They mostly lived in the Great Lakes region. Their first contact with Europeans happened in 1667 near present-day Green Bay, Wisconsin at a Jesuit mission station.
The descendants of the Kaskaskia, along with the Wea and Piankeshaw, are in the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma. That means they are a federally recognized tribe in Oklahoma.[2]
References
- ↑ Warren, Robert E. "Illinois Indians and French Colonists." Illinois Periodicals Online. Retrieved 14 Dec 2013.
- ↑ House, Office of the Law Revision Counsel. United States Code 2006, Volume 15. §1224, page 986
Other websites
- Kaskaskia entry in the Catholic Encyclopedia
- Lenville J. Stelle, Inoca Ethnohistory Project: Eye Witness Descriptions of the Contact Generation, 1667 - 1700
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