Mascouten
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descendants are part of the Piankashaw and Kickapoo |
The Mascouten (also Mascoutin, Mathkoutench, Muscoden, or Musketoon) were a tribe of Algonquian-speaking Native Americans located in the Midwest. They are believed to have dwelt on both sides of the Mississippi River, adjacent to the present-day Wisconsin-Illinois border, after being driven out of Michigan by the Odawa.
The accounts of the
Their name apparently comes either from a Fox word meaning "Little Prairie People" or from the Sauk term Mashkotêwi ("
They are first mentioned in historic records by
The survivors migrated westward. The Mascouten are last referred to as a band in historic records in 1779, when they were living on the
The city of Mascoutah, Illinois, was named in 1839 after the Mascouten tribe.[8]
The village of Moscow, Iowa County, Wisconsin, is said to have been named after the Mascouten tribe.
References
- Notes
- ISBN 9781440107955.
- ^ Sturtevant, William C. (1978-01-01). Handbook of North American Indians. Government Printing Office.
- ^ "The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents Volume 55". puffin.creighton.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-03-21. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
- ^ Gordon Whittaker: A Concise Dictionary of the Sauk Language
- ^ Lee Sultzman, "Mascouten History", Dickshovel, accessed 5 July 2010
- ^ The Early Map "Novvelle France": An Linguistic Analysis
- ^ "the Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents Volume 27". puffin.creighton.edu. 11 August 2014. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
- ^ Illinois (1839). Laws of the State of Illinois Enacted by the ... General Assembly at the Extra Session ... Illinois State Journal Company, State Printers.
- Bibliography
- Johnson, M. and Hook, R. The Native Tribes of North America, Compendium Publishing, 1992. ISBN 978-1-872004-03-7
- "Wisconsin Historical Society." Wisconsin Historical Society. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Feb. 2013. <http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/>.
External links
- Mascouten history
- Access Genealogy - Mascouten Indian Tribe History
- Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. .
- Wisconsin Historical Society