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Top: Society: Ethnicity: The_Americas: Indigenous: Native_Americans: Tribes,_Nations_and_Bands: I
The Illiniwek or Illini Confederacy (though they were more of a large tribe than a true confederacy) was the dominant people of the Illinois area that now bears their name; today there are about 2000 Illinois in Oklahoma. Peoria and Kaskaskia were the sub-tribes of the Illini from whom most surviving Illinois descend.
The two peoples known to white settlers as 'Montagnais' and 'Naskapi' were actually members of the same people, Innu. Living in different areas and having different manner of dress, they were dealt with separately by the colonizing Europeans, but they have always considered themselves one nation. There are about 15,000 Innu all told in Labrador and Quebec.
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