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Migration to Acculturation: The Kaskaskia, Europeans, and Cultural Change in the Illinois Country during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Scholars have paid scant attention to Native Americans living in the Illinois country between 1673 and their removal in 1832, and they have focused even less attention on the Kaskaskia, one of the Illinois confederation’s tribes. As a result, they have difficulty determining what cultural characteristics Europeans took from the Kaskaskia and vice versa. This represents a striking scholarly oversight because eighteenth century contemporaries often noted the degree of acculturation among the Kaskaskia. The colonial fur trader and Philadelphia merchant George Morgan, for example, arrived in Kaskaskia village in 1766, full of fears of the unknown. His concerns soon evaporated when he discovered people living in recognizably European ways. He set up his trading operation among the Kaskaskia confident in their need for his British manufactures. He also became a student of his hosts’ lives, an ethnographer among the Kaskaskia and other Natives in the Illinois country. Morgan’s experience in Illinois—his initial fear Migration to Acculturation: The Kaskaskia, Europeans, and Cultural Change in the Illinois Country during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries