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	Illinois Information - Hometown USA
		Illinois is a state in the United States named after the Illiniwek Indian tribe, which used to live there.
		The capital of Illinois is Springfield and the U.S. postal abbreviation for the state is IL.
		Named for the Illiniwek tribe of Native Americans, this state is known as the "Land of Lincoln," because it is where the 16th President spent his formative years.
	www.hometownusa.com /il (543 words)

	Learn more about Illinois in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The capitol of Illinois is Springfield and the U.S. postal abbreviation for the state is IL.
		Named for the Illinois tribe of Native Americans, this state is known as the "Land of Lincoln," because it's where the 16th president was raised.
		The current Governor of Illinois is Rod Blagojevich (Democrat) and the U.S. senators are Richard J. Durbin (Democrat) and Peter G. Fitzgerald (Republican).
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /i/il/illinois.html (377 words)

	Illinois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Illinois lived in a large area of the Midwest in the region comprising the present state of Illinois and parts of Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa and Wisconsin.
		The Illinois Indians, a part of a large Algonquin family, were one of the largest tribes of the Central Prairies and Woodland region.
		The tribes traded with the French trappers, were influenced by Trappist monks and were loyal to the French in the French wars with neighboring tribes and later with the English.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/northamerica/illinois.html (473 words)

	Native Americans:Historic:The Illinois
		The Illinois were a populous and powerful nation that occupied a large section of the Mississippi River valley.
		This is the story of the Illinois people when they lived in their traditional homeland, a place the French used to call the "Illinois Country." The story is based, in part, on historical descriptions of the Illinois by French observers like Jacques Marquette and Pierre Delliette, who traveled or lived among them three-hundred years ago.
		Answers the question "who were the Illinois Indians?" Identifies the tribes of the Illinois and describes their language, territory, and personal appearance.
	www.museum.state.il.us /muslink/nat_amer/post/htmls/il.html (704 words)

	Facts for Kids: Illinois Indians (Illini)
		We encourage students and teachers to look through our main Illini website for more in-depth information about the tribe, but here are our answers to the questions we are most often asked by children, with Illini pictures and links we believe are suitable for all ages.
		The Illini tribe was nearly wiped out by war in the 1700's, and the survivors had to move to Kansas and Oklahoma.
		The Illini tribe was known for their quillwork, beadwork, and embroidery.
	www.geocities.com /bigorrin/illini_kids.htm (1337 words)

	News > Kansas tribe buys land in ancestral reservation
		A Kansas tribe is finally reclaiming land in Illinois that one of its chiefs used to call home.
		According to a published report, the tribe is interested in a casino in the county where the Shab-eh-nay Reservation is located.
		The tribe can't reclaim all of the reservation because 60 percent is now part of the Chief Shabbona Preserve, the Shabbona State Park and a county forest preserve.
	www.indianz.com /News/archive/000108.asp (756 words)

	Tribal Land Claim Meets Resistance in Illinois; Miamis' Suit Viewed as Tactic for Casino Accord
		With nearly a third of the 554 federally recognized tribes running some sort of gambling operation -- and making $ 10 billion a year in the process -- Indians have become major contributors to state and national political campaigns and have tipped the balance of power in many of their disputes over gaining casino rights.
		He said that while the United States may have given the Miamis the disputed land in the 1805 Treaty of Grouseland, the tribe abandoned the land and it was subsequently ceded to the government by the Potawatomi.
		He was referring to the settlement of the Miami tribe at the southern end of Lake Michigan until Potawatomi and Kickapoo tribal encroachment drove them southeast to the Miami River in Ohio.
	www.fair.org /activism/claiborne-casino.html (1385 words)

	The Other Half Women and the Illinois Indian Tribe
		During the last years of the seventeenth century and the early decades of the eighteenth century, the French reported that Illinois men spoke disparagingly when they referred to women; the Europeans even concluded that Illinois women were the slaves of the men.
		The tribe acknowledged the status of individual achievers with public rituals such as the first-kill feast, the warrior's pounding-the-post ceremony, and elaborate burials.
		It is difficult to measure changes in Illinois social practices because the tribe endured tremendous population losses after coming into direct contact with the French in 1673; fewer Indians resulted in fewer documents concerning them.
	www.lib.niu.edu /ipo/1997/ihfa9706.html (2718 words)

	THE ILLINI: LORDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY
		Jolliet spoke of meeting an Illinois village chief (in Iowa) and subsequently being conducted to Peoria to meet the "Grand Captain" of all the Illinois.
		Its attractiveness was an irresistible magnet to the warlike tribes of Wisconsin and its richness in furs likewise attracted the unwanted attention of the Iroquois to the east.
		In 1802, the Kaskaskia skirmished with the Shawnee in southern Illinois.
	members.tripod.com /~RFester/index.html (2876 words)

	Rep. J. Dennis Hastert, 14th District of Illinois
		“Based on the opinion from the Department of the Interior, it would appear the tribe has not established the recognition necessary for this property to be considered a reservation,” said Burzynski and Pritchard.
		Burzynski and Pritchard said they asked for input from the federal government after it became evident there were many unanswered questions surrounding the tribe’s proposal.
		"Any claim to jurisdiction over Indian owned land within a tribe's former territory, and conversely any claim to immunity from such jurisdiction, will have to deal with the complex application of all the factors referenced by the treaties, courts and statutes in the context of the specific claim," wrote Olsen.
	www.house.gov /apps/list/press/il14_hastert/shabona_gaming_9_29_06.html (608 words)

	HLS : Faculty Directory
		Tribe, Laurence H. "The Unbearable Wrongness of Bush v.
		Tribe, Laurence H. "The Supreme Court, 1998 Term--Comment: Saenz Sans Prophesy: Does the "Privileges or Immunitites" Revival Reveal the Future--or Expose the Hidden Structure of the Present?" 113 Harvard Law Review 110 (1999).
		Tribe, Laurence H. Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes (W.W. Norton 1990).
	www.law.harvard.edu /faculty/directory/facdir.php?id=74 (172 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Kentucky
		In 1654 Colonel Wood, an Englishman, is said to have explored as far as what is now the western boundary of the state, and in 1673 the renowned Jesuit missionary, Father Jacques Marquette, descended the Mississippi as far as the Ohio.
		He was afterwards captured by the Illinois tribe and taken to Kaskaskia, where he was ransomed.
		There were no resident Indian tribes in the central and eastern portion of the territory at this time, but numerous bands of savages traversed it, and the first settlers were constantly harassed, the fort at Boonesboro being attacked three times in 1777 and 1778.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08620b.htm (5893 words)

	Discover and Experience the Murals of Ottawa, Illinois!
		Before French explorers entered the Illinois Valley or white settlers sowed crops and built homes here, the valley was populated by Native American Indian tribes.
		In the distance, the tawny grass of an Illinois Valley bluff stretches to the blue-gray horizon and the Illinois River.
		Among the Illinois tribe, hunting expeditions generally were undertaken by individuals or small groups, but each summer most people left a village for communal bison hunts, according to Dr. Michael Wiant, director of Dickson Mounds Museum in Lewiston and an acknowledged expert in Native American history.
	www.ottawaillinoismurals.com /early/early1.htm (485 words)

	Native Americans: Illini History and Culture (Illinois Indian Tribe, Illiniwek)
		Illinois history is interesting and important, but there are still Illinois people alive today, too, and we try to feature modern writers as well as traditional folklore, contemporary artwork as well as archaeology exhibits, and the issues and struggles of today as well as the tragedies of yesterday.
		Indian opposition to "Chief Illiniwek," the mascot of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
		The Illinois Confederacy of Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Oklahoma
	www.native-languages.org /illini.htm (309 words)

	Illinois Genealogy and History presented by Illinois Trails, now part of the Genealogy Trails History Group
		in the Illinois State Prison in Alton, IL who were pardoned, died or escaped from 1 January 1855 to December 1856.
		Established in March of 2000, we used to be known solely as Illinois Trails and worked on transcribing only Illinois data.
		Illinois Genealogy Trails, part of the Genealogy Trails History Group, is an Independent volunteer organization dedicated to providing free access to Historical and Genealogical Records
	genealogytrails.com /ill (824 words)

	Washington Post Reporter William Claiborne Responds to FAIR's February 16 Alert
		Now, 150 years later, the Algonquian-speaking Miami Tribe of the upper Midwest was returning with a land claim of 2.6 million acres of their ancestral home that could put the land into tribal trust and give the Miamis sovereignty over it and property owned by descendants of white settlers.
		The purpose of the article was to report on the reactions of the white landowners in the face of this supreme irony.
		Some of those who sent e-mails referred to the Miami tribe as "the Florida tribe," indicating they could not possibly have read the lead paragraph of the article that placed the Miami Tribe in the upper Midwest.
	www.fair.org /index.php?page=1807 (772 words)

	FLOWER DELIVERY Illinois IL \| Illinois FTD Florist \| Illinois Flower Shop
		FLAG: The inner portion of the state seal and the word "Illinois" on a white field.
		Also depicted are the prairie, the sun rising over a distant eastern horizon, and, on the boulder, the dates 1818 and 1868, the years of the seal's introduction and revision, respectively.
		The words "Seal of the State of Illinois Aug. 26th 1818" surround the whole.
	www.wesleyberryflowers.com /flowers_IL_illinois.html (720 words)

	Native American Authors: Illinois Tribe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Description: This page on the tribe is part of a Native North American Cultures online exhibit created by Minnesota State University - Mankato.
		Description: The Illinois tribe has handed down the legend of a flying dragon that lived in the cliffs of the Illinois River.
		It lived amongst the bluffs of the Illinois River where it watched for prey.
	www.ipl.org /div/natam/bin/browse.pl/t165 (131 words)

	Native American Indian Genealogy
		A listing by state of the tribes that lived and visited.
		The History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs, Volume I
		The final struggle or the Pottawatomie and Illinois tribe in Illinois.
	www.accessgenealogy.com /native (507 words)

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		Very soon, you will be able to search homes, apartments, auto listings, and jobs in Illinois.
		On December 3, 1818, Illinois became the 21st state in the Union.
		According to the 2000 Federal Census, 12,419,293 people reside in Illinois, the fifth largest state in the Union.
	www.illinois.com /content/helpFaq.html (242 words)

	Illinois Business, Real Estate, Community , Apartment Directory - Valuecom
		Illinois Business, Real Estate, Community, Apartment Directory - Valuecom
		Origin of Name: From an Indian word and French suffix, meaning "tribe of superior men"
		Points of Interest: Art Institute of Chicago, Field Museum, Museum of Science and Industry, Shedd Aquarium, Adler Planetarium, Brookfield Zoo, Sears Tower
	valuecom.com /acclaim/Illinois (89 words)

	Living Trust - Illinois Living Trust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Nonprofit organization in Lake County, Illinois offering financial, human resource and manufacturing...
		Historical resource on the Illinois Indians by Lee Sultzman; part of Jordan Dill's compact tribal histories.
		Article on the tribe's history and culture from the Encyclopedia of North American Indians.
	www.living-trust.resourcepage.info /illinoislivingtrust (691 words)

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