ILLINOIS
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ILLINOIS
There may be a conveyance of any lot of land not
exceeding five acres to a county for the interment of
the dead, for the use of any society, association, or
neighbourhood, and such will thereafter be exempted
from taxes. There are laws in Illinois governing the
sale or lease of land for cemetery purposes; the sale of
land not suitable for cemetery purposes; the removal
of cemeteries; fixing penalties for destroying, mutil-
ating, or injuring any tomb or other property, or com-
mitting a breach of the peace; the enforcement of
police protection; the making of gifts in trust for
purposes of repairs, improvements, and ornamenta-
tion; the investment of trust funds; the exempting
of trust funds from taxation; the organization of
county cemetery boards and providing for burial of
indigent soldiers and sailors. The laws governing
cemeteries impose no additional burden on ceme-
teries owned by Catholic institutions.
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Hugh O'Neill.
Illinois Indians (Illinois, through the French, from Illini-wek, i. e., men: the name used by them- selves), an important confederacy of Algonquian tribes formerly occupying the greater part of the present state of Illinois, together with the adjacent portion of Wisconsin. Iowa, and Missouri. Their lan- guage, which was perhaps the softest of all the Algon- quian tongues, differed only dialectically from that of tne Miami, their eastern neighbours and usual allies. They probably numbered originally from 8000 to 1 0,000 souls, in five principal sub-tribes, the Cahokia, Kaskas- kia, Michigamea, Peoria, and Tamaroa. Physically t he early Illinois are described as tall, robust and well- featured, but lacking in courage and steadiness of pur- pose, and greatly given to licentiousness. The priests and conjurors seem to have been even more influential among them than in other tribes. They were rather hunters than farmers and seldom kept their villages long in one place. Their houses were long communal cabins, with four to five fires ranged along the central passage, each fire accommodating two families. The great village of the combined tribes in 1G92 was esti- mated by Father Rasle to contain :«)0 such cabins, while other explorers of about the same period re- ported as high as 400. Polygamy was common, a
man sometimes marrying several sisters of the same
family, and they appear to have had the clan system.
Among their great ceremonies was the noted Calumet
dance, the special aversion of the missionaries, which
spread from the Illinois to all the tribes of the central
region. Their dead were generally disposed of by
being wrapped in skins and fastened upright to trees.
They carried on a defensive war against most of the
surrounding tribes, as well as against the invatling Iro-
quois, but were uniformly friendly toward the French
and the English.
So far as known the first W'hite man to make the acquaintance of the Illinois was the Jesuit pioneer. Father Claude .Mlouez, who met them as visitors at his mission at La Pointe (Bayfield, Wis.) in lOGT, ami again at the Mascoutens village in southern Wisconsin three years later. In 1673 Marquette, on his voyage of discovery down the Mississippi, was welcomed by them about the mouth of the Des Moines in Iowa, and on his return passed through their villages on the Illi- nois, preaching as he went. lie had already made a study of the language, at La Pointe, in anticipation of establishing a mission, as they now requested. Per- mission being given, he set up his altar, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, among the Kaskaskia in April, 1675, but died a month later while on his way to Mackinaw. The work was taken up by Allouez, but again discontinued owing to the Iroquois inroads and the opposition of La Salle, who brought in three Recol- lect missionaries — Fathers La Hibourde, Membrf, and Hennepin. They found little encouragement, how- ever, and Father La Ribourde lieing slain by a roving war party, the Recollect attempt was abandoned. In 1684 Allouez returned and resumed work among the Peoria gathered at the French fort at the head of Peoria Lake (Rockfort, 111.). He was followed by Gravier (16S7), Ra.sles (1692), and again by Cravier (1693), to whom we owe the first grammar and dic- tionary of the language. Father (iravier diefl in 1706 from a wound received in an encounter with a heathen mob. A second mission was founded about 1700 among the Tamaroa, near the French post of Cahokia, nearly opposite St. Louis, and another about the .same time among the Kaskaskia. Twice a ye:tr, for a few- weeks in summer and for a longer period in winter, all the bands left their villages for the bulTalo hvmt and were followed by the missionaries, \\lien visited by Charlevoix in 1721 the missions were jointly under the care of Jesuits and priests of the Seminary of Foreign Missions. The Peoria were still almost all pagan, as were portions of the other tribes, but the majority were now Christian, and intermarriage with the French settlers had become common. About tliis time several of the nation, including the chief, Chicago, visited France and were much impressed by what they saw. In spite of their receptive teinpcniniciit the Illinois were fickle, and intemperance introduced by the French garrisons did much to nidlify the work of the missionaries and demoralize the tribes. As allies of the French against the hostile Chicka.saw^ and Natchez of the lower Mississippi, they suffered heavily. In 1730 a detachment accompanieil the ill-fated expedi- tion of d'Artaguettes against the Chickasaw, and among the prisoners w'ho suffered a horrible death at the stake was the devoted Jesuit missionary, Senat. By this time invasion by the northern trilies and wholesale dissipation at home were rapidly thinning the number of the Illinois, and in 17.">0 they had been reduced to about 1000 souls with apparently but one mission. The priests of the Foreign Missions were now devoting themselves entirely to the French. On the transfer of Louisiana to Spain in 1763 the Jes- uit missions, including those of the Illinois country, were suppressed and confiscated, although the mis- sionaries generally remained as secular priests. The murder of the celebrated chief Pontiac, by a Kas- kaskia Indian bribed by an English trader, brought
