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	Tamaroa
		In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Tamaroa occupied both sides of the Mississippi River between the mouths of the Illinois and Missouri rivers.
		Tamaroa was also the name of the tribe's principal village, located at or near the present site of East St.
		Tamaroa served all of her almost 10-year long Navy career in and around San Francisco, Calif., She was initially assigned to the Commandant, 12th Naval District, and that assignment continued until mid-1942.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/t2/tamaroa.htm (272 words)

	Tamaroa (tribe) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tamaroa were a Native American tribe in the upper Mississippi River valley of North America, and a member of the Illiniwek tribal group.
		Among the signers of the treaty of 1818 by which the Illiniwek tribe ceded about half of present state of Illinois were two leaders of the Tamaroa.
		The descendants of the tribe later merged with other tribes of the Illiniwek; as a consequence of Indian Removal, their descendants are to be found in Oklahoma, as the Confederated Peoria Tribe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tamaroa_(tribe) (180 words)

	Native Americans:Historic:Glossary
		The piasa is similar to the water spirit of the Winnebago tribe, the Uktena of the Cherokee tribe, and the Water Cougar of the Seminole tribe, all powerful deities associated with water and the Lower World.
		In the late 1600s and early 1700s, the Tamaroa tribe occupied the central portion of Illinois territory along the Mississippi River in east-central Missouri and in the American Bottom region of southwestern Illinois.
		A tribe of American Indians that speaks a Siouan language (Winnebago) related to the Chiwere language spoken by the Ioway, Missouri, and Oto tribes.
	www.museum.state.il.us /muslink/nat_amer/post/htmls/gloss.html (3859 words)

	Tamaroa Maritime Foundation: USCGC Tamaroa's History
		The USCGC Tamaroa (WMEC-166) was originally commissioned in 1943 as the USS Zuni, a 205-foot salvage tug.
		Of course, the most publicized rescues the Tamaroa was in 1991 during the "No-Name" or "Halloween Storm" that was subsequently immortalized in Sebatian Junger's best-seller The Perfect Storm.
		Tamaroa was able to rescue four of the five Air National Guardsmen, an act which earned the cutter the Coast Guard Foundation Award.
	www.tamaroa.org /history.htm (940 words)

	"Wild Horse". Native American Art & History. Native people tribe. Illini
		Tamaroa: both sides of Mississippi at the mouths of the Illinois and Missouri.
		After neighboring tribes nearly destroyed them in 1769, the Illini were less than 1,800, only of whom 600 survived.
		Although not nearly as cohesive as the Iroquois League, their political unity was sufficient to dominate other tribes in the region.
	www.american-native-art.com /publication/illini/illini.html (830 words)

	Illinois Indian Tribe History
		The Cahokia and Tamaroa were at this time living at their historic seats on the Mississippi in south Illinois.
		In general their villages bore the names of the tribes occupying them, and were constantly varying in number and shifting in location.
		Unfaithfulness of a wife was punished, as among the Miami, the Sioux, the Apache, and other tribes, by cutting off the nose of the offending woman, and as the men were very jealous, this punishment was often inflicted on mere suspicion.
	www.accessgenealogy.com /native/tribes/illinois/illinoishist.htm (1098 words)

	The 'Cahokia' Entry from Hodge's handbook of Indians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Like all the confederate Illinois tribes there were of roving habit until they and the Tamaroa were gathered into a mission settlement about the year 1698 by the Jesuit Pinet.
		On the withdrawal of the Jesuits the tribe declined rapidly, chiefly from the demoralizing influence of the neighboring French garrison, and was nearly extinct by 1800.
		With the other remnant tribes of the confederacy they removed, about 1820, to the W., where the name was kept up until very recently, but the whole body is now officially consolidated under the name Peoria, q.
	www.prairienet.org /prairienations/cahokia.htm (313 words)

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	www.cr.nps.gov /nagpra/onlinedb/land_cessions/il.doc (82 words)

	USCGC Tamaroa, WMEC-166
		Tamaroa's commanding officer during this time, CDR J. Kent Kirkpatrick, reported that during the year, Tamaroa had sailed 31,492 nautical miles and had been out to sea for 223 days and conducted 147 boardings, issued 31 citations and warnings, seized two vessels and made two arrests for narcotics smuggling.
		Tamaroa launched one of her small boats and the crewmen pulled close aboard the trawler but before the boat's crew could lend assistance the trawler capsized and sank.
		Tamaroa was relieved of the escort by CGC Monomoy and Tamaroa returned to her patrol area.
	www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/WEBCUTTERS/Tamaroa1943.html (2682 words)

	Swtext Illinois1d
		The murder of Pontiac by a Kaskaskia Indian set the northern tribes in motion against the Illinois and in the ensuing wars the latter were reduced to a fraction of their former strength and the Sauk, Foxes, Kickapoo, and Potawatomi dispossessed them of the greater part of their territories.
		This tribe succeeded the Miami in the region of Chicago, and, after the destruction of the Illinois, occupied still more territory in the northeastern part of the State.
		The Sauk assisted their relatives the Foxes in expelling the Illinois tribes from the Rock River region, and they occupied it with them until the lands were ceded to the Whites and they moved farther west.
	www.hiddenhistory.com /PAGE3/swsts/Illinoi1.htm (1084 words)

	Peoria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		These Indian tribes occupied what is now known as the State of Illinois from at least the 1600's until the late 1800's when they moved west across the Mississippi River.
		The social structure of the Peoria as well as the other Indian tribes was based on the family structure of a man and a woman and their children.
		The reason they are referred to as the uncooperative tribe of the Illiniwec is that they did not sign a treaty with the government at the same time of the other tribes.
	www.up140.jacksn.k12.il.us /Wright/seventh/tribes/Peoria.htm (686 words)

	Chronicles of Oklahoma
		In the treaty of 1867 the Confederated tribes ceded their grants in Kansas to the United States and removed to the Indian Territory where they occupied the cessions made to the United States by the Quapaw and the Seneca and Shawnee.
		In 1768 a part of the tribe went to Missouri; and when, in 1832, their grant of 1818 was ceded to the United States, most of them joined their tribesmen who had moved to Kansas.
		The tribe is a subtribe of the Miami.
	digital.library.okstate.edu /chronicles/v011/v011p1073.html (3367 words)

	Indians, Kaskaskia
		The life of the Kaskaskia and their fellow Illiniwek tribes (which consisted of the Peoria, Cahokia, Tamaroa, Metchigamea and Moingwena) followed a seasonal cycle.
		Trade with other tribes and Europeans was done throughout the year, as was collection of firewood, wild foods, herbs and natural medicines, which was done by the women.
		The Illiniwek tribes hoped strong ties with the French would protect and strengthen them in their ongoing wars with the Hodenosauneega (Iroquois tribes), the Nadouessioux (Sioux tribes) and other enemies such as the Mesquakie (Fox).
	www.randolphcountyillinois.net /sub2.htm (887 words)

	Missouri
		Because of fear of an attack by the Sioux, traditional enemies of the Illini, the Indians of the Des Peres settlement in 1703 moved to the east side of the Mississippi near the mouth of the Kaskaskia River.
		From the earliest historical times the habitat of the Osage was among the hills and valleys of the Ozarks, south of the Missouri, in the present State of Missouri, and here they continued to dwell until their removal during the early part of the last century.
		But, unfortunately, his accounts of the native tribes and their villages which he encountered during his travels are neither full nor clear, and so it is with the description of the habitations of the Osage.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/mo/county/stlouis/native/1stcontact.htm (4796 words)

	The Tribes of The Illinois Confederacy
		The name of the tribe was given to the largest prehistoric artificial earth mound in the United States, located about six miles east of St. Louis Missouri in Madison County Illinois.
		The Michigamea, formerly one of the tribes of the Illinois Confederacy, are of the Algonquian linguistic family.
		The Tamaroa were one of the tribes of the Illinois Confederacy of the Algonquian linguistic family.
	www.rootsweb.com /~itquapaw/illinois/illinois.html (2052 words)

	Tribes of Illinois
		Representatives of this tribe appear in treaties made in 1795, 1816,1829, and 1833 relinquishing Illinois land to the Whites.
		This tribe, together with the Sauk, drove the Illinois Indians from the northwestern part of the State of Illinois in the latter part of the eighteenth century and took their places, but ceded the territory to the United States Government by a treaty signed November 3, 1804.
		Tamaroa, on both sides of Mississippi River about the mouths of the Illinois and Missouri.
	www.whitemoonraven.com /maps/illinois.html (927 words)

	Illinois
		The dominant tribe in the region before 1655, their hunting territory extended into western Kentucky and across Missouri and Iowa, the latter provoking occasional skirmishes with the Pawnee and Wichita on the plains (from whom the Illini learned the calumet ceremony).
		As neighboring tribes moved south to fill the empty spaces created by massive die-offs of the original population, some bands of the Illini apparently were able expand south along the Mississippi into northern Arkansas.
		Since the boundaries of their reserves were established by treaty, the emigrant tribes were not forced to surrender their land, but those with excess land (and this was all of them in the opinion of the government) were pressured to sell the excess for white settlement.
	www.tolatsga.org /ill.html (16946 words)

	Museum homepage
		Most American Indian tribes, in their own language, referred to themselves simply as 'the men' or 'the people.'" This group is sometimes referred to as the Illinois Confederacy.
		The Confederacy label was probably applied because the individual tribes were often camped in the same location when encountered by the early missionaries and explorers."According to the writings of the early Jesuits in the area, the Illinois tribes were believed to have occupied the area along the upper Mississippi for some time prior to contact.
		As their populations diminished, these tribes, too, merged: the Tamaroa and Michigamea joined the Kaskaskia, and the Cahokia merged with the Peoria.
	www.schools.lth5.k12.il.us /bths-east/illiniwek.html (1833 words)

	'Michigamea' entry from Hodge's handbook of Indians
		A tribe of the Illinois confederacy, first visited by Marquette when be descended the Mississippi in 1673.
		It must have been shortly previous to the time that the first knowledge of the tribes of this general region was obtained that a group or division of the Illinois confederacy, including the Cahokia, Tamaroa, and possibly the Michigamea, pushed southward to escape the attacks of the Sioux and the Foxes.
		Harrison supposed that there was but one man of the tribe left alive, but as late as 1818 the names of 3 Michigamea appear as signers of a treaty with the Illinois.
	www.prairienet.org /prairienations/mich.htm (376 words)

	St. Louis Area Indian Tribes From Prehistory to the Nineteenth Century
		This historical sketch unfortunately is incomplete since historic Indian tribes usually did not record their stories in writing, so most of this history is what was recorded by whites.
		Eventually peaceful Indian tribes, like the Shawnee-Delaware or the Illini would be given permission to settle immediately west of the Spanish governed French communities of St. Louis and St. Genevieve.
		It is known that the Natchez tribe was still using mounds in their settlements in the present State of Mississippi.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/mo/county/stlouis/native/indian.htm (1656 words)

	Illinois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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.
		Following the American Revolution, the American government had trouble subduing the Illinois, even though the tribes were weakened by their struggles with the Iroquois in the 1600's and with the Great Lakes tribes in the 1700's.
		Both men and women of the tribe tattooed their bodies, and the warriors shaved most of their heads, leaving a scalp lock and some hair in front and behind each ear.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/northamerica/illinois.html (473 words)

	The Chief Illiniwek Dialogue Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Illini were a loose association or confederation of several tribes all speaking the Algonquin language.
		By the middle of the eighteenth century, their population was a fraction of what it had been a century before.
		By treaty, most of the land occupied by the Illini was ceded to the government, and the last of the Kaskaskia and Peorias crossed the Mississippi and headed briefly to Missouri and then to Kansas where they remained until the white settlers wanted their land.
	www.uillinois.edu /trustees/dialogue/report_files/III.html (438 words)

	THE ILLINI: LORDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY
		The five most populous tribes of the Illini Confederation were the Kaskaskia, the Cahokia, the Peoria, the Tamaroa, and the Michigamea.
		The Illini were a (segmented) tribe rather than a confederation in the true sense of the term.
		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.
	members.tripod.com /~RFester/index.html (2876 words)

	Illinois
		The Illinois living on the Illinois River across from Starved Rock met the French in 1673, when Father Jacques Marquette and explorer Louis Jolliet made their famous voyage.
		As the tribe lost population, it moved the center of its territory southwest and away from the Starved Rock area on the Illinois River; eventually the reduced Illinois located in the American Bottom, land on the east side of the Mississippi south of its confluence with the Missouri.
		Most importantly, however, the tribe's military, economic, and religious dependence on the French explains why the Illinois suffered greater losses than more independent—and defiant—tribes like the Foxes.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/625.html (584 words)

	America in Map Native North Tribe
		Author Deborah Kogan Ray's quiet watercolors accompany her text, america in map native north tribe and an afterword, biographies, america in map native north tribe and a bibliography are included along with color drawings of some of the hundreds of plants that the Bartrams first identified.
		Wichita (tribe) - The Wichita are a tribe of Native Americans, indigenous inhabitants of North America, who speak Wichita, a Caddoan language.
		Tamaroa (tribe) - The Tamaroa were a Native American tribe in the upper Mississippi River valley of North America, and a member of the Illiniwek tribal group.
	bo35.tekcareinc.com /americainmapnativenorthtribe.html (1749 words)

	Missouri Indian Tribe
		The most closely allied tribes are the Iowa and the Oto.
		Marquette's autograph map of 1673, which is perhaps the earliest authentic notice of the tribe, locates the Semesssrit on Missouri river, apparently as far north as the Platte.
		It is stated that Tonti met the tribe a day and half's journey from the Village of the Tamaroa, which was on the Mississippi, 6 leagues below Illinois river.
	www.nanations.com /missouri (310 words)

	EarlyChicagoHOME
		also Tamaroa, Tamarois; tribe within the Illinois nation; among them, at Cahokia, Father Pinet founded the Mission de Sainte Famille in c.1699, while gradually closing the Mission de l`Ange Gardien de Chicagou.
		There is a remnant of several tribes of Indians, mostly Winnebagoes, still remaining in this place who are to remove beyond the Mississippi this fall.
		At a later time, this treaty was bitterly denounced as unfair by the Sauk leader Black Hawk, and his defiance led to the Black Hawk War in 1832, in which Fort Dearborn and the surrounding settlements became involved.
	www.earlychicago.com /encyclopedia.php?letter=T (8082 words)

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