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The Illini Indian tribes were in southern Illinois. The French settlers named the area after the tribe that welcomed them.
Illinois
the leathernecks got their name from an American Indian tribe (i think)
As a result of the French exploration and settlement in this area, in the 18th century, Illinois was so named after the French version of the name of one tribe which thrived in the area. Thus Illinois (pronounced: /ˌɪləˈnoɪ/) is the French version of the Algonquin Indian word for "warriors" or "tribe of superior men."
No. Starved Rock is a place on the Illinois River that denotes what happened to the Indians who took refuge there from another Indian tribe.
The tribe that greeted French explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle was the Illinois tribe.
Early in the 1670s, French settlers coined the term Illinois based on an Ottowa dialect of the Ojibwe language word ilinwe-, to describe an individual that resides there as he speaks the regular way. The word came to them from the Miami-Illinois language.See the related link(s) listed below for more information:
illini is some sort of Indian tribe that i guess was stationed in Illinois and so i guess that's how they got that nickname. and because illini is short for Illinois
where did great indian bustard migrate
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