Editor Keith A. Sculle Advisory Board, Volume 11:1 Kay J. Carr Southern Illinois University Carbondale Patricia Grimmer Carbondale Community High School Carbondale Harold Harrison Oregon HIgh School Oregon, Illinois Robert H. Lombard Western Illinois University Macomb David Maurer (retired) Eastern Illinois University Charleston, Illinois Michael A. Solliday (retired) Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Illinois Board of Trustees Julie Cellini, Chair Pamela A. Daniels J. Douglas Donfield Edward M. Genson Laurie Ann Hoffman Elizabeth I. Smith Roger Taylor Director Maynard Crossland Chief, Office of Constituent Services Evelyn R. Taylor Chief of Publications Evelyn R. Taylor

CONTENTS Introduction ........................1 Michael Wiant, Guest Editor Exploring Seventeenth-Century Illinois ......................2-8 Michael Wiant and Duane Esarey Curriculum Materials Monica Cousins Noraian Illinois as a French Colony .................9-18 Curriculum Materials Bonnie Laughlin Illinis Indians in the Indian Country .................19-28 Robert E. Warren Curriculum Materials Joyce A. Williams Illinois Indians and French Colonists: Cultural Collarboration ........................29-38 Melissa Beck Curriculum Materials Sara. L. Werckle Bibliography & Contributors' Biographies ................39-41