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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]
French missionary Jacques Marquette documented in 1672 that the Peolualen (the modern Peoria). and the Mengakonkia (Moingona) were among the Ilinoue tribes who all "speak the same language." [ 3 ] In 1673 Marquette and Louis Jolliet left their canoes and followed a beaten path away from the river out onto the prairie to three Illinois villages ...
At the time of contact with European explorers, their range covered most of Iowa. The Ho-Chunk ranged primarily east of the Mississippi in southern Wisconsin, the Ioway/Baxoje ranged in northern Iowa, the Otoe in central and southern Iowa, and the Missouria in far southern Iowa. [4] [5] [6] All these tribes were also active during the historic ...
Residents across Oklahoma are asking questions about their tribal-issued car tags. Here is a look at what we know about the situation.
The Mid-Illini Conference includes Canton, Dunlap, East Peoria, Limestone, Metamora, Morton, Pekin and Washington. Here's how they'll finish in 2024.
Peoria to Iowa? Manual's Dieterich Richardson makes unofficial visit with Hawkeyes basketball game and meets women's star Caitlin Clark.
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]
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