Identifier: centennialhistory01illi (find matches)
Title: The centennial history of Illinois
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Illinois. Centennial Commission Alvord, Clarence Walworth, 1868-1928
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Publisher: (Chicago : A.C. McClurg & co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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essi-tated constant watchfulness and made heavy inroads on thenumber of Illinois warriors. The story of one of the wars with a Siouan folk lies on theborder line between the historic and the prehistoric; no con-temporary record of it was made, but its echo came to the earsof one of the earliest white men among the Indians. In theflood of Algonqulan invasion that poured over the Great Lakesregion, the Winnebago, of the Chlwere group of Sioux, hadby their prowess in war managed to maintain themselves intact -^Handbook of American Indians, 2:240; Charlevoix, Journal dun Voyage,145 ; Thwaites, Jesuit Relations, 55:201 ff.; Beckwith, Illinois and IndianaIndians, 107. It is impossible to locate the Miami definitely before the coming ofthe French, when these western tribes had been temporarily displaced by theIroquois wars. See below, p. 37. The British called the Miami Twightwees. 26 Harrison, Discourse on the Aborigines of the Ohio Valley, 27. ^^ Thwaites. Jesuit Relations, 44:247; 45:235.
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G\iLT OT WXICO INDIAN TRIBES ABOUT 1700 INDIANS AND THEIR NEIGHBORS 35 in the region between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi river,a Siouan island in a sea of ahens, achieving thereby no Httleprestige. But about the middle of the seventeenth century along struggle with the Ottawa, who were pressing hard uponthem from the east, was followed immediately by a malignantplague; and the double calamity reduced the once redoubtabletribe to about fifteen hundred warriors. The Illinois, so thestory goes, were so touched by the misfortunes of their northernneighbors that they sent five hundred men, laden with gifts, asan expression of friendship. Misfortune, however, had notsoftened the hearts of the Winnebago; they received theirguests courteously and arranged a grand celebration, only asa ruse preparatory to a horrible holocaust. While the Illinoiswere engaged in dancing the Puans (Winnebago) cut theirbowstrings, and immediately flung themselves upon the Illinois,massacred them, not sparing

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