Kaskankaham

The Kaskankaham, or Kaskaskia, were a people of the Illinois Confederation whose homeland lay in the Great Lakes region. In 1673 Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet met them at the Grand Village on the Illinois River.

In 1703 French Jesuits founded a mission at Kaskaskia near the Mississippi, where French settlers and Illinois people lived alongside one another. The town became a center of French Upper Louisiana, while the Kaskaskia absorbed survivors of other Illinois peoples, including the Tamaroa.