Little Rock Village
Little Rock Village was a Native American village of the Potawatomi people located on the north bank of the Kankakee River, at a site close to the current boundary between Kankakee and Will counties of the state of Illinois in the United States.[1][2] The location now lies within the present-day Kankakee River State Park, close to the mouth of Rock Creek on Kankakee River.[3]
References
- ^ John Stoutenburgh (1960), Dictionary of the American Indian, Philosophical Library, http://books.google.com/?id=VhR1AAAAMAAJ, "... Little Rock Village: In 1832, this was a village of the Potawatomi ..."
- ^ John Reed Swanton (1968), The Indian tribes of North America, Smithsonian Institution Press, http://books.google.com/?id=egQKAAAAMAAJ, "... Little Rock Village, on the north bank of Kankakee River about the boundary of Kankakee and Will Counties, Ill. ..."
- ^ Kankakee River State Park, Illinois Department of Natural Resources, http://dnr.state.il.us/lands/landmgt/parks/r2/kankakee.htm, retrieved 2009-07-14, "... The most extensive village was "Rock Village" or "Little Rock Village" inside the present-day park near the mouth of Rock Creek ..."