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    Beaver Township is one of twenty-six townships in Iroquois County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 527 and it contained 229 housing...
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    Donovan is a village in Beaver Township, Iroquois County, Illinois, United States. The population was 304 at the 2010 census. Donovan was laid out in 1872...
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  • Beaver Township may refer to: Beaver Township, Carroll County, Arkansas Beaver Township, Saline County, Arkansas Beaver Township, Iroquois County, Illinois...
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    Iroquois County is a county located in the northeast part of the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 United States Census, it has a population...
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    Beaverville Township is one of twenty-six townships in Iroquois County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 609 and it contained 269...
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    Beaverville (formerly St. Marie) is a village in Beaverville Township, Iroquois County, Illinois, United States. The population was 362 at the 2010 census...
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    Indiana and northeastern Illinois in the United States. It was named for the Iroquois people. Via the Kankakee and Illinois rivers, it is part of the...
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    Railway Lake County (north) Jasper County (east) Benton County (south/ET Border) Iroquois County, Illinois (west) Kankakee County, Illinois (northwest)...
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    Kankakee River (category Rivers of Kankakee County, Illinois)
    Kankakee County All of Kankakee County is in the Kankakee River basin. About half is on the Iroquois River Branch. Yellowhead Township Momence Township Momence...
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    in that region to push the Iroquois back to New York. By the end of the Beaver Wars, the Wyandot had broken free of Iroquois control and reabsorbed surviving...
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  • List of Indiana placenames of Native American origin (category Articles containing Miami-Illinois-language text)
    comes from the Huron people. Iroquois - During the Beaver Wars the Iroquois Confederation campaigned in Indiana and Illinois. In 1680, La Salle labeled...
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    counties of the state of Illinois, 84 are organized into civil townships, usually referred to as simply "townships" in state law. All told, Illinois has...
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    Lemuel Milk (category People from Iroquois County, Illinois)
    Chebanse, Illinois and an ice harvesting company in Kankakee, Illinois. Milk is the namesake of Milks Grove Township, Iroquois County, Illinois. Lemuel...
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    Small bands of aggressive Iroquois settlers arrived in northern Illinois in 1660 in search of new hunting grounds for beaver, stimulating intertribal warfare...
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    "pioneer". Township of Negaunee Nottawa – Algonquin word meaning "Iroquois". Nottawa Township in Isabella County Nottawa Township in St. Joseph County Nottawa...
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    to the Erie. Both tribes were likely eradicated by the Iroquois Confederacy during the Beaver Wars (approx. 1630–1701), which later bled into the first...
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  • refer to the following places: Beaverville, Illinois, U.S. Beaverville Township, Iroquois County, Illinois, U.S. Beaverville, New Jersey, U.S. All pages...
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    Petun (category History of Grey County)
    for furs. The Iroquois to the south, meanwhile, were beginning their campaign of expansionism which would become known as the Beaver Wars. The Dutch...
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    Logstown (category Geography of Beaver County, Pennsylvania)
    The Beaver Creek Watershed, (Watershed B of the Ohio River Subbasin 20)," State Street Bridge Replacement Project, Mahoning Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania...
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    New York (state) portal Erie County Sheriff's Office Erie Township, Illinois Erie Township, Minnesota List of counties in New York National Register...
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    divisions of Illinois are counties, townships, precincts, cities, towns, villages, and special-purpose districts. The basic subdivision of Illinois are the...
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    Tassinong, Indiana (category Unincorporated communities in Porter County, Indiana)
    of Lake Michigan was embroiled in the Beaver Wars, which began in the Iroquois lands of New York in 1638. Iroquois war parties had destroyed the Erie Nation...
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    region were the Illinois Confederation; they comprised multiple tribes and mainly lived in central Illinois. Throughout the 1700s, the Iroquois, Potawatomi...
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    during the Beaver Wars by the Iroquois. Early European colonists and traders on the East Coast had fueled demand for furs, and the Iroquois – based in...
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    to Fort Saint Louis des Illinois, which had been besieged by the Seneca (part of the Iroquois Confederacy) as part of the Beaver Wars; they sought to gain...
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    with the Iroquois once European traders offered highly desired goods for furs, especially water proof Beaver pelts About 1651 the Iroquois Confederacy...
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    Brownsville, Pennsylvania (category Boroughs in Fayette County, Pennsylvania)
    Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States, first settled in 1785 as the site of a trading post a few years after the defeat of the Iroquois enabled...
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    Lake Michigan (redirect from Lake Illinois)
    Illinois has been found (named for the Illinois Confederation of tribes), in addition to that of "Michigan". During the 1640s and 1650s, the Beaver Wars...
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    Ho-Chunk (category Native American tribes in Illinois)
    numerous Algonquian tribes migrated west to escape the aggressive Iroquois tribes in the Beaver Wars, they competed for game and resources with the Ho-Chunk...
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  • meadows." Wyoming Township, Holt County, Nebraska Yutan - Named for an Otoe chief. Elko County City of Elko Elko Hills Washoe County Washoe City New Washoe...
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