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64: 258: 130:. Benjamin Drake, writing in 1848, records that the Michigamie, along with the other bands in the Illinois Confederation, had been attacked by a general confederation of the Sauk, Fox, Sioux, Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatamies, along with the Cherokee and Choctawa from the south. The war continued for a great many years until the Illinois Confederation was destroyed. Drake records that by 1826 only about 500 members of the Confederation remained. 270: 246: 290: 144:, who have taken up their winter quarters in a fine Bay, where they await the Mitchigamea, -- who are to come more than 60 leagues to winter there, and to form but one village with them." 133:
Drake implies that the war came about due to the cruelty of the Illini towards their prisoners, frequently burning them, and even feasting on their flesh when killed.
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along the Mississippi. One of their villages in the American Bottom, inhabited from 1730 until 1752, is one of the region's premier
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The Life and Adventures of Black Hawk: with sketches of Keokuk, the Sac and Fox Indians, and the Late Black Hawk War
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Confederation. Not much is known about them and their origin is uncertain. Originally they were said to be from
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in Southwestern Illinois takes its name from their transient presence nearby, north of the French
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Inoca Ethnohistory Project: Eye Witness Descriptions of the Contact Generation, 1667 - 1700
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National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Kolmer Site
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Combined History of Randolph, Monroe and Perry Counties, Illinois
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Michigamea
Illinois
Mitchigamea language
Image showing a picture of the tribal territory of illinois at around 1700AD, with michigamea near the bottom of the picture
Illinois
Lake Michigan
Chicago
Monroe County
Fort de Chartres
American Bottom
archaeological sites
Kolmer Site
Arkansas
Iroquois
Agapit Chicagou
Jesuit Relations
Tamaroa
Mitchigamea language
"Mitchie. Monroe County."
National Park Service
Lenville J. Stelle, Inoca Ethnohistory Project: Eye Witness Descriptions of the Contact Generation, 1667 - 1700
Portals
Illinois
Indigenous peoples of the Americas
Michigan
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Indigenous peoples of North America
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expanding it
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