THE ILLINOIS WAS A CONFEDERACY OF ALGONQUIN TRIBES FORMALLY OCCUPYING SOUTHERN WISCONSIN, ILLINOIS, AND MISSIPPI. THE JESUIT RELATION FOR 1660 REPRESENTED THEM AS LIVING IN IN 60 VILLAGES IN GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN. THEY HAD ABOUT 70,O0O FOLKS.
THE ANGLOS FIRST CAME INTO CONTACT IN 1667 FOR TRADE. SOME VILLAGES WERE ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE MISSISSIPPI. THE ILLINOIS WERE CONSTANTLY HARASSED BY THE THE SIOUX, FOXES AND OTHER NORTH TRIBES. ABOUT THE SAME TIME THE FRENCH WEAKENED THEM WITH LIQUOR AND THE IROQUIOS RAGED WAR WITH THEM.
IN 1750 THERE WERE ONLY ABOUT 2000 FOLKS LEFT. IN 1769 THE LAKE TRIBES ON THE ILLINOIS RIVER BEGAN A WAR WITH THE ILLINOIS AND REDUCED THEM TO VERY FEW. ALL THE NEIBORING TRIBES TOOK POSSESSION OF OF THEIR COUNTRY. BY 1850 THERE WERE ABOUT 150 ILLINI LEFT, REPRESENTED BY KASKASKIA AND PEORIA. THEY SOLD THEIR LAND MOVED WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI AND ARE NOW IN OKLAHOMA WITH THE WEA AND OPIAKSHAWE. MANY HAVE MARRIED ANGLOS.
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