'Cahokia' entry from Hodge's Handbook
Abstract: The 'Cahokia' entry from Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, edited by Frederick Webb Hodge (Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 30. GPO: 1910.)Author: James Mooney of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
Cahokia. A tribe of the Illinois confederacy, usually noted as associated with the kindred Tamaroa. Like all the confederate Illinois tribes there were of roving habit until they and the Tamaroa were gathered into a mission settlement about the year 1698 by the Jesuit Pinet. This mission, first known as Tamaroa, but later as Cahokia, was about the site of the Present Cahokia, Ill., on E. bank of the Mississippi, nearly the opposite the present St Louis. In 1721 it was the second town among the Illinois in importance. On the withdrawal of the Jesuits the tribe declined rapidly, chiefly from the demoralizing influence of the neighboring French garrison, and was nearly extinct by 1800. With the other remnant tribes of the confederacy they removed, about 1820, to the W., where the name was kept up until very recently, but the whole body is now officially consolidated under the name Peoria, q. v.(J.M.)
Caeuquias. -- De l'Isle, map (ca. 1705) in Neill, Hist. Minn., 1858. Cahakies. -- Carver, Travels, map, 1778. Cahau. -- Marain (1753) in Margry, Déc., VI, 654, 1886. Cahoki. -- Gale, Upper Miss., 174, 1867. Cahokia. -- Coxe, Carolana, map, 1741. Cahokiams. -- Keane in Stanford, Compend., 504, 1878. Cahokies. -- Esnauts and Rapily, map, 1777. Cahokqui. -- Alcedo, Dic. Geof., I, 320, 1786. Cahaoquias. -- Keane in Stanford. Compend., 504, 1878. Cahkia. -- Hennepin, New Discov., I, 302, 1786. Cahoquias. -- Keanse in Stanfor. Compend., 504, 1878. Cania. -- Hennepin, New Discov., 310, 1698 (same? The "Caokia" are named as another Illinois band). Caokia. -- Allouez (1680) in Margry, Déc., II, 96, 1877. Caoquias. -- Perkins and Peck, Annals of the West, 680, 1850. Caouquias. -- Moll, map, in Salmon, Modern Hist., 3d edi., III, 602, 1746. Catiokia. -- in Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, II, 588. Cayaughkias. -- Stone, Life of Brant, II, 566, 1864. Cohakias. -- Schermerhorn (1812) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 2d s., II, 8, 1814. Cohakies. -- Am, Pioneer, I, 408, 1842. Kahokias. -- Homann Heirs' map, 1756. Kahoquias. -- Nuttall, Journal, 250, 1821. Kakias. -- Milfort, Mémoire, 106, 1802 (same?). Kaockhia. -- La Salle 91682) in Margry, Déc., II, 201, 1877. Kaokia. -- Gravier (1701?) In Perrot, Mémoire, 221, 1864. Kaokies. -- Lattré, map, 1784. Kaoquias. -- Perkins and Peck, Annals of the West, 69, 1850. Kaouechias. -- Force, Inds of Ohio, 21, 1879. Kaoükia. -- Gravier (1701) in Shea, Early Voy., 118, 1861. Ka8kias. -- Shea, ibid., 60. Kavvachias. -- Shea, Rel. Miss, du Mississippi, 36, 1861. Kavvchias. -- St Cosme (1699) in Shea, Early Voy., 67, 1861. Kavvechias. -- Ibid., 66. Kavvkias. -- Ibid., 60. Kawkias. -- Bossu, Travels through La., 131, 1771. Ooukia. -- Allouez (1680) in Margry, Déc., II, 96, 1877. Tahokias. -- Browne in Beach, Ind. Miscel., 119, 1877.
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