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rence of some great convulsion of nature, which has 

 destroyed both lakes and men, since that country was first 

 seen by the whites. 



The Wahpacootas, a band of the Sioux, or Dacotas, now 

 dwell where Lahontan found the Eokoros ; and, higher up, 

 where he found the Essanape and Gnacsitares, are the Wa- 

 petons, another band of the same nation. Farther west are 

 the Yanctons, and beyond, the Teton, or Titonwan, and 

 Yanctoni, all bands of the Sioux. Farther in the north and 

 west are the Chippewas, Assiniboins, Blackfeet, Mandans, 

 Arrikarees, Gros Ventres, and Arripahas. 



There are eleven bands of the Dacotas. Five of them are 

 named in the last preceding paragraph. The others are the 

 Medawekantons, Sisseton, Santis, Sioune, Ogallala, and 

 Hunkpapa. From the name of one of these bands, probably 

 Sioune, the French called the w^hole Dacota nation Sioux. 

 Formerly, the Assiniboins were a tribe of the same nation, 

 from whom they separated. 



A tribe was mentioned, by all the travellers, under the 

 various names of Klistinos, Knistinos, and Kristinos. 



The Illinois, a powerful nation, occupied the northeastern 

 portion of the tract comprised within our limits, residing on 

 both sides of the Illinois River for nearly the whole extent 

 of the State, north and south, and from the Lake to beyond 

 the Missisippi. They were divided into several bands, under 

 the names of Tamaroas, Michigamis, Kaskaskias, Kahokias, 

 Peorias, and Moingonas. Of this numerous and powerful 

 nation, the only remnant is a band of Kaskaskias and Peorias, 

 numbering about one hundred and fifty. By long and bloody 

 wars with the Iroquois, before they were knoAvn to the whites, 

 the Illinois nation had become much reduced and enfeebled. 

 The cession of Louisiana by France to Spain and England, 

 by partition, in 1763, caused much dissatisfaction among the 



