Agencies were established on or near each reservation. A government representative, usually called an agent or superintendent was assigned to each agency.
Their duties included maintaining the peace, making payments to the Native Americans based on the stipulations of the treaties with each tribe, and providing a means of communication between the native population and the federal government. Sometimes, a single agency had jurisdiction over more than one reservation.
And sometimes, if the tribal population and land area required it, an agency may have included sub-agencies. The boundaries of reservations, over time, have changed. Usually, that means the reservations have been reduced in size. Sometimes, especially during the later policy of "termination," the official status of reservations was ended altogether. The following list of reservations has been compiled from the National Atlas of the United States of America [5] , the Omni Gazetteer of the United States of America [6] , and other sources.
There are no current federally-recognized reservations in Illinois. Department of Interior and U. Geological Survey. Family History Library. Memories Overview Gallery People Find. In various languages and dialects of the Sioux, including the Iowa, Kansa, Missouri, Omaha, Osage, Oto and Quapaw, the word means "the power believed to animate all natural forms. Waukegan in the Potawatomi language, and in several Algonquian languages, means a small stream.
A small river does indeed discharge into Lake Michigan at this location. Illinois was discovered in , settled in and entered the Union on December 3, Even the buffalo herds then roamed over this land that would someday become Joliet and Will County.
The land was so bountiful that other tribes traveled here in trading and raiding expeditions. It is difficult to identify for certain which tribe was where in Southern Illinois. Illinois, a confederation of small Algonquian-speaking North American Indian tribes originally spread over what are now southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois and parts of Missouri and Iowa.
Maize corn was the most important crop, but the Illinois also raised beans, squash, pumpkins, and watermelons. Women prepared their fields and began planting maize in early May. The state officially became a part of the union in , having kept its Native American-inspired name for almost years at that point. How did the Best People become known as suckers?
There are three theories. One theory is that many of the prairies were full of crawfish holes from which many people would suck water by using a hollow reed. We and our partners use cookies to better understand your needs, improve performance and provide you with personalised content and advertisements.
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