Mascouten
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The Mascouten (also Mascoutin, Mathkoutench, Muscoden, or Musketoon) were a tribe of Algonquian-speaking Native Americans located in the Midwest. They are believed to have dwelt on both sides of the Mississippi River, adjacent to the present-day Wisconsin-Illinois border, after being driven out of Michigan by the Odawa.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Mascouten
- Ethnic group.population
- descendants are part of the Kickapoo today
- Ethnic group.popplace
- Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois
- Ethnic group.languages
- Algonquian
- Ethnic group.religions
- traditional tribal religion
- Ethnic group.related
- Piankeshaw and Kickapoo
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Mascouten (also Mascoutin, Mathkoutench, Muscoden, or Musketoon) were a tribe of Algonquian-speaking Native Americans located in the Midwest. They are believed to have dwelt on both sides of the Mississippi River, adjacent to the present-day Wisconsin-Illinois border, after being driven out of Michigan by the Odawa.
== Identification == The accounts of the Jesuit Relations frequently refer to the Mascouten as the "Fire Nation" or "Nation of Fire". One Jesuit wrote, "The Fire Nation is erroneously so called, its correct name being Maskoutench, which means 'a treeless country,' like that inhabited by these people; but as, by changing a few letters, this Word is made to signify 'fire,' therefore the people have come to be called the Fire Nation."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mascouten” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.