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Illinois (Confederacy) · illinois · IlliniIllinois (Confederacy)
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- Great Lakes / Old Northwest
In the record
One court case turned on its rights: Johnson v. M'Intosh.
Today, Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma carries this history, as their own pages or research records say.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.
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Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
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Named in 1
Present-day governments that carry this history 1
Sources
- web.archive.org/web/20240123210831/https://peoriatribe.com/history/unclassified
They are Illinois or Illini Indians, descendants of those who created the great mound civilizations in the central United States
Research notes
Named in the Johnson v. M'Intosh row.
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