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23 kwi 2024 · Nearly 200 years after Native Americans were forced out of Illinois, the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation has become the first federally recognized tribal nation in the state after a decision from the U.S. Department of the Interior last week.
27 wrz 2024 · The “Coal to Solar in Carrier Mills” initiative and the “Energy Sovereignty, Security, and Democracy” partnership between the Village of Dowell and the City of Carbondale have each won $200,000 in the second phase of the competition, which supports clean energy advancements in rural communities.
Does Native America stretch far back in time around Carrier Mills? Truth is, Illinois has a history as rich as any other U.S. state.
19 kwi 2024 · Illinois is, once again, home to a federally recognized tribal nation. 175 years ago, Potawatomi Chief Shab-eh-nay left his home in DeKalb County to visit family in Kansas. He returned home to find the U.S. government had illegally sold 1,280 acres of his northern Illinois land.
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Carrier Mills, formerly Carrier's Mills and Morrilsville, also known as Catskin, is a village in Saline County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,672 at the 2020 census. Carrier Mills was named after George Washington Carrier's saw and grist mills, and was one of the early Cairo and Vincennes Railroad boomtowns.
Slide 1. The Carrier Mills Archaeological Project: Fascinating Finds. The Carrier Mills Archaeological Project documented more than 10,000 years of Native American lifeways in the Saline Valley in southern Illinois. What follows highlights just a few of the project’s many fascinating finds.
