Kaskaskia
Noun
Meaning
Kaskaskia pl (plural only)
An indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, part of the Illiniwek Confederation.
Examples
Migrants from the French villages on the opposite side of the Mississippi River (e.g. Kaskaskia) founded Ste. Genevieve in the 1730s.
Eventually, the mission planted roots at the confluence of the Mississippi River and the Michigamea River, which is now known as the Kaskaskia River.
The road extended from the Goshen Settlement to the Ohio salt works and crossed the Kaskaskia River at Carlyle.
Most of the western border with Missouri and Iowa is the Mississippi River ; Kaskaskia is an exclave of Illinois, lying west of the Mississippi and reachable only from Missouri.
Crossing the Kaskaskia became much easier when the bridge now known as the General Dean Suspension Bridge was built in 1859, at a cost of $40,000.
One record from 1750 in Kaskaskia, Illinois written by a local priest noted that the "wolves" encountered there were smaller and less daring than European wolves.