Coircacoentanon

The Coiracoentanon were one of the peoples of the Illinois confederacy, whose communities shared a language and maintained connections across the upper Mississippi country. They are recorded among the Illinois villages on the Illinois River. In the late seventeenth century, Pierre de Liette listed a Coiracoentanon village among those at Peoria, where it was one of the larger communities. The Illinois combined farming with seasonal hunting and moved between village life and the prairies where bison could be found.