Mascouten
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Mascouten (also Mascoutin, Mathkoutench, or Musketoon) were a tribe of Algonquian-speaking native Americans who are believed to have dwelt on both sides of the Mississippi adjacent to the present-day Wisconsin-Illinois border. They are first mentioned by French missionaries, where they were described inhabiting southern Michigan. In 1712, they united with the Kickapoo and the Fox, after almost being exterminated by the French and the Potawatomi. Those who survived emigrated westward and are last mentioned in 1779, when they were living on the Wabash River in Indiana with the Piankashaw and the Kickapoo.
Their name apparently comes from a Fox word meaning "Little Prairie People", though historians do not know what they called themselves. [1] This name is now borne by the Potawatomi of Kansas.
[edit] References
- Johnson, M. and Hook, R. The Native Tribes of North America, Compendium Publishing, 1992. ISBN 1-872004-03-2
[edit] External links
 |
This article relating to Indigenous peoples of North America is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
