Mascouten Indigenous peoples

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The Mascouten were an Algonquian-speaking Indigenous people of the Great Lakes region, historically living in what is now the Midwest United States before being dispersed and absorbed by neighboring tribes.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Algonquian-speaking people
Indigenous people
affectedBy Beaver Wars
European colonization
epidemic diseases
associatedWith Fox people
Illinois Confederation
Kickapoo people
Miami people
White Earth Ojibwe
surface form: Ojibwe people

Potawatomi
surface form: Potawatomi people

Sauk people
colonialPowerInteraction France
Great Britain
conflictWith Iroquois Confederacy
continent North America
culturalRegion Eastern Woodlands
documentedBy Jesuit Relations
encounteredBy French explorers
French missionaries
ethnicGroupOf Great Lakes region
ethnonymVariant Fire Nation
Mascoutens
Mascoutins
Maskoutens
Maskoutins
Nation of Fire
fate dispersed among neighboring tribes
largely absorbed by Fox people
largely absorbed by Kickapoo people
largely absorbed by Miami people
historicalTerritory present-day Illinois
Michigan (most of state)
surface form: present-day Michigan

present-day Wisconsin
housing longhouses
wigwams
language Illiniwek language
surface form: Mascouten language
languageFamily Algonquian languages
modernDescendants Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas
Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma
Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas
surface form: Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo Reservation in Kansas
politicalOrganization village-based leadership
region Midwestern United States
religion Indigenous North American spirituality
status extinct as a distinct tribe
subsistence fishing
gathering wild foods
hunting
maize agriculture
timePeriod 17th century
18th century
tradeNetwork Great Lakes fur trade

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Louis Jolliet metWith Mascouten Indigenous peoples