The Illini in Southern Illinois

Name: The Illini in Southern Illinois
Start: 2024-11-14T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2024-11-14T20:00:00-06:00
Location: 217 W Main St, Carbondale, IL 62901-2919, United States

Schedule

Thu Nov 14 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

217 W Main St, Carbondale, IL 62901-2919, United States | Carbondale, IL

We hope you will join us for “The Illini in Southern Illinois,” presented by Kay Rippelmeyer-Tippy, regional historian and author, in person at Carbondale's Township Hall (meeting room must be accessed via the backdoor!). During this presentation, Kay will focus most on the 100 year period, 1700-1800, which saw the final decline of all native American tribes still in the Illinois country, given disease and war and intermarriage. The history of the Illini’s extensive marital relationships with the French in Illinois Country has been written about extensively. In addition to the personal background of her own ancestors, including Michael Danis, who was a French-Canadian interpreter between the Illini and the French, Kay will draw on accounts of this history by noted historians such as Margaret Brown, J. H. Schlarman, R. G. Thwaites, Wayne Temple, and Carl Ekberg. Another source Kay will draw on is an environmental history of the region by M.J. Morgan, Land of Big Rivers: French & Indian Illinois, 1699 - 1778, published 2010 by SIU Press.