Tamarowa

The Tamarowa were an Illinois Confederation people near the confluence of the Mississippi, Missouri and Illinois rivers. Their village near Cahokia had about 600 lodges in 1682.

A Catholic mission founded nearby in 1689 attracted Cahokia people to settle among them, and in 1703 the Tamarowa joined the Kaskaskia at the mouth of the Kaskaskia River. Disease and warfare with the Chickasaw and Shawnee reduced their numbers; in 1803 the United States recognized the survivors as members of the Kaskaskia.