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  1. The Peoria are a Native American people. They are enrolled in the federally recognized Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma headquartered in Miami, Oklahoma. The Peoria people are descendants of the Illinois Confederation. The Peoria Tribe were located east of the Mississippi River and north of the Ohio River.

  2. The city was named after the Peoria people, a member of the Illinois Confederation. On October 16, 1854, Abraham Lincoln made his Peoria speech against the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Prior to prohibition, Peoria was the center of the whiskey industry in the United States.

  3. The history of Peoria, Illinois began when French explorers constructed Fort Crevecoeur in 1680. The County of Peoria was organized in 1825, the town in 1835, and Peoria was incorporated as a city in 1845.

  4. Peoria Tribe. Peoria Indian by George Catlin, 1830. The Peoria are an Algonquian people whose ancestors came from Illinois, Michigan , Missouri, and Ohio. Their history goes back as far as what was once part of the Cahokia culture of Moundbuilders. The name “Peoria” comes from their name for themselves in the Illinois language, Peewaareewa ...

  5. Pages in category "Peoria people" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Ruthe Blalock ...

  6. The Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma is a confederation of Kaskaskia, Peoria, Piankashaw and Wea Indians united into a single tribe in 1854. The tribes which constitute The Confederated Peorias, as they then were called, originated in the lands bordering the Great Lakes and drained by the mighty Mississippi.