Pakamik

Pakamik is a name for the Iroquois River, a tributary of the Kankakee that winds through prairie country westward. The Kankakee and its marshes formed part of a route linking the Great Lakes with the Illinois River and the Mississippi. Piankashaw people maintained villages in the wider Kankakee country before the growth of French posts on the Wabash. The rivers and their wetlands provided a setting for travel and settlement across the low divide south of Lake Michigan.