Kaskaskia
Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands of North America / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the tribe. For the village in Illinois, see Kaskaskia, Illinois. For other uses, see Kaskaskia (disambiguation).
The Kaskaskia were one of the indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands. They were one of about a dozen cognate tribes that made up the Illiniwek Confederation, also called the Illinois Confederation. Their longstanding homeland was in the Great Lakes region. Their first contact with Europeans reportedly occurred near present-day Green Bay, Wisconsin, in 1667 at a Jesuit mission station.[citation needed]