While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
C- Illinois Indian Villages, Towns and
Settlements
A complete listing of all the Indian villages,
towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico.
Chicago (Sauk, Fox, and Kickapoo: shĕkagua,
'skunk' , and shĕkakohĕgi
'place of the skunk' , an ancient name for the s. part of L. Michigan, due, it
is said, to a large skunk that once lived along the s. shores and was killed in
the lake by a party of fox hunters. W. J.) . A Miami village on the site of
Chicago, Ill., at the period of the earliest explorations in that region,
1670-1700. A French document of 1695 makes it a Wea village at that time (N.
Y. Doc. Col. Hist, ix, 619, 1855). Situated on one of the routes to the
Mississippi, it was a place of importance from an early date. It was the seat of
the Jesuit mission of St Joseph; Marquette and Joliet passed by it on their
return from their exploration of the Mississippi, and Marquette subsequently
passed a winter there. Allouez took the same route in 1677, as did La Salle on
his second journey, and Joutel and Cavelier were at Chicago in 1687-88, followed
by La Hontan the following year. Chicago was also the name of a chief of the
Illinois about 1725. See Hoffman in 14th Rep. B. A. E., 238.
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reflecting the culture or language of a particular period or place. These
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
