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!
Moingwena.
The name (the etymology of which is doubtful) of a small tribe of the
Illinois confederacy, closely affiliated with the
Peoria. The name
was applied also to the villages in which they resided. The first
recorded notice of the tribe is by Marquette in the account of his descent
of the Mississippi with Joliet in 1673, when he found them residing in the
vicinity of the Peoria village on the west side of the Mississippi near
the mouth of the Des Moines. Franquelin's map of 1688 gives the name
of the river as "Mingana," and marks the Indian village of "Moingoana" on
it. When Marquette returned from the south in 1674, he passed up
Illinois river and found the Peoria in the vicinity of Lake Peoria,
the tribe having removed hither after his descent the previous year.
He does not mention the Moingwena in this connection, but from the fact
that Gravier found them with the Peoria in this locality in 1700, it is
presumed that they migrated thither with the latter tribe. As no
mention is made of them after this time they probably were incorporated
with the Peoria, thus losing their tribal distinction.
