Temple Wayne C. Indian Villages of the Illinois Country. Historic Tribes

Illinois State Museum, 1942. — 218 p.The Illinois State Museum is dedicated to the preservation of the past of our state and to making that past meaningful to its citizens. The present volume on "Indian Villages of the Illinois Country" by Dr. Wayne C. Temple, Curator of Ethnohistory, is an important contribution to this objective. He here brings together from a wide variety of documentary sources-the accounts and letters of explorers, missionaries, traders, and representatives of the Crown-the rich and varied history of the Illinois region and its inhabitants. The Illini, the Miami, the Sauk and Fox, the Potawatomi, Ottawa, and Chippewa, the Shawnee and Delaware, and the Winnebago and Menominee, the tribes who roamed and hunted and fought over the Great Lakes region, are now largely gone but they have left their mark in place names and in history. We usually see them as part of the conflict between France, England and Spain for possession of the North American continent, and they played major roles as allies or pawns in that struggle. But here the Indians are themselves the center of attention, as Dr. Temple follows them across the stage of history.