Native American Tribe series.
Michigamea
The Michigamea are no longer extant as an American Indian tribe. Their descendants may be included among today's Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma. The Michigamea were an Algonquian-speaking people and the southernmost of the Illinois, a group of approximately twelve tribes who inhabited portions of present Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Arkansas. The Michigamea once dwelled along the upper Sangamon River in Illinois, where they subsisted by farming, hunting, fishing, and gathering. Despite their proficiency in warfare, they were driven south by the Fox and other enemies. In 1673 Father Jacques Marquette visited their principal village, which was then situated along the Mississippi River in northeast Arkansas.
By 1700 the Michigamea had been forced from Arkansas by the Quapaw. They and the Chepoussa, an Illinois tribe whom they later assimilated, returned to Illinois and settled near the mouth of the Kaskaskia River in present Randolph County. The French, conveyors of liquor, warfare, and disease, completed Fort de Chartres nearby in 1720. Consequently, the Michigamea declined in strength and number. The Sauk, enemies of the French, attacked and overwhelmed the Michigameas' village in June 1752.
Eventually the Michigamea were absorbed by the Kaskaskia, a neighboring Illinois tribe, and were recognized as such by the United States in 1803.
Mondo's NAT #330 - Michigamea
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