Mondo's NAT #252 - Kaskaskia Traditional Cache
Mondo's NAT #252 - Kaskaskia
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Native American Tribes series.
Kaskaskia
One of several tribes that made up the Illiniwek Confederation, the name in their language translates to "he scrapes it off by means of a tool." Their first contact with Europeans reportedly occurred near present-day Green Bay, Wisconsin in 1667 at a French Jesuit mission station. For years the French Jesuits built missions and ministered to Kaskaskia until the French and Indian War ended. By that time, the Kaskaskia and other Illiniwek tribes were quickly declining. The original population was estimated by early French explorers from 6,000 to more than 20,000. But, by 1764, their numbers had been reduced to some 600, and by 1778 to just a little more than 200.
The causes of decline included making war with their French allies against other Indian tribes and the inevitable European diseases. In 1769, a Peoria warrior killed Ottowa Chief Pontiac, which brought down upon the Kaskaskia and other Illinois tribes, the wrath of the Great Lakes tribes, and soon the Ottawa, Sac and Fox, Miami, Kickapoo and Potawatomi tribes began to occupy their old tribal range along the Illinois River. What was left of the tribe joined with the Wea, Peoria, and Piankashaw tribes in 1854. They were then moved to Kansas before again being forced to move to Oklahoma, becoming the Peoria tribe of Oklahoma.
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