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Kaskaskia
The
Kaskaskia
were an
indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands
. They were one of about a dozen
cognate
tribes that made up the
Illiniwek Confederation
, also called the
Illinois Confederation
. Their longstanding homeland was in the
Great Lakes
region. Their first contact with Europeans reportedly occurred near present-day
Green Bay, Wisconsin
in 1667 at a
Jesuit
mission station
.
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