Identifier: historyofillinoi00inblan (find matches)
Title: History of Illinois, to accompany an historical map of the state
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Blanchard, Rufus, 1821-1904
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Publisher: Chicago, National school furnishing co.
Contributing Library: The Illinois State Library
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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ch became augmented by therival interests of the French of Canada and the English colo-nists along the Hudson river. The Iroquois, who held all theterritory between the Hudson river and Lake Erie, were im-portant factors in the hands of the English wherewith tosecure the western fur trade, while the French of Canada hadadvanced up the lakes to secure not only the fur trade, but thecountry itself as a province of France. The Sioux or Dakotas west of the Mississippi were an-other classification of tribes, and may be set down as the mostheroic of all, they never having been conquered on the field ofbattle by either other native tribes or even by the armies ofthe United States, as the fate of Custers army in 1879 givesmelancholy experience. ILLINOIS TKIBES. 103 The Illinois Indians were composed of five subdivisions:Kaskaskias, Cakokias, Tamaroas, Peorias and Metchigamis,the last being a foreign tribe from west of the Mississippiriver, who having been reduced to small numbers by wars with
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104 ILLINOIS TEIBES. their neighbors, abandoned their former hunting grounds andbecame incorporated with the Illinois. The first historicalmention of the Illinois is found in the Jesuit Relations forthe year 1670-1, prepared by Father Claude Dablon, fromthe letters of priests stationed at LaPointe, Lake Superior,where the French had a trading post. Says the Father: Thefirst who came to the Pointe of the Holy Ghost (meaning theMission) for commerce called themselves Illinois. In the Jesuit Relations, and in the writings of other Frenchauthors, the name Illinois is variously spelled as Illi-mouek, Ill-i-no-u-es, Ill-i-ne-wek, Allini-wek, and Lin-i-wek. The terminations oues, wek, ois, and ouek were almostidentical in pronunciation. Lewis Evans, the great geogra-pher in colonial days, spelled the name Will-i-nis. MajorThomas Forsyth, for many years trader and Indian agent inthe Illinois Territory, and stationed at the French village ofPeoria, says the Illinois confederation call themselvhistoryofillinoi00inblan

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