Peewareewa

The Peewareewa, or Peoria, were an Illinois Confederation people living east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio River.

Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet encountered them in 1673, and they traded with French colonists in Illinois Country. After France ceded land east of the Mississippi to Britain in 1763, Peoria people moved into Missouri. The United States pressed them to cede Illinois lands in the 1818 Treaty of Edwardsville; the 1832 Treaty of Lewisville exchanged their Missouri lands for land near the Osage River in Kansas.