Description
This river’s land was known by the Osage, Missouria, Iowa, Sauk and Fox, Chickasaw, Shawnee, Caddo, Quapaw, the various groups of the Illinois, and others as the context for life and change. Learn more about the Native Americans who lived in direct accord with the river. Their story of being driven out by the advancing European colonial powers and the United States is the preface to the establishment of St. Louis and other settlements in the Mississippi River Valley.