Yet, Cahokia is only part of Illinois’ rich American Indian heritage ... 1700s and early 1800s, the Illiniwek territory shrank, the Miamis moved eastward, and other tribes moved in.

Two state-run museums and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are making progress on their repatriation efforts with ...

Equestrian Indian tribes on the American Plains in the late 1800s were the tallest people in the world, suggesting that they were surprisingly well-nourished given disease and their lifestyle ...

Northwestern is a community of learners situated within a network of historical and contemporary relationships with Native American ... a dozen other Native tribes and is still home to over 100,000 ...

State Rep. Will Guzzardi said that in the late 1800s, white settlers stole land away from Chief Shab-eh-nay’s home reservation in northern Illinois when the chief traveled to visit family in Kan ...

Now, Native Americans whose ancestors' remains ended up held for study in sterile, nondescript boxes on shelves in educational facilities or displayed in cultural locales hope a new Illinois law ...