Summary of Piankashaw Locations (ca. 1776-ca.1783) (pp. 125- 126 )
/pg. 126/
Parties including Piankashaws also continue to travel to the Illinois Country, as well as to the Spanish on the western side of the Mississippi River, to Detroit, and to the falls of the Ohio for various purposes.
Population figures continue to be unsatisfactory. No separate estimates of Piankashaw population have been found for this time period.
/pg. 125/
During the short period of time between the Declaration of Independence and the signing of the Treaty of Peace in Paris in September of 1783, the Indian groups living along the Wabash River, including the Piankashaws, were subjected to conflicting pressures from the Americans and Virginians, on the one hand, and the British on the other. The French and the Spanish also tried to influence the Indians in this area.
Piankashaws continue to be identified with, and to have villages at the same two centers along the Wabash River as in earlier years-Vincennes and the Vermilion River, with those in the vicinity of the Vermilion River being more subject to British influences and those near Vincennes more subject to American (Virginian) pressures.
Some Piankashaw wintering grounds are located in meadows along the Wabash River between the confluence of the Vermilion River with the Wabash River and the site of Vincennes.
Piankashaws at Vincennes explicitly state that they gave permission to Delawares to settle in lands between the Wabash and Ohio rivers and also gave George Rogers Clark a grant of land opposite the present-day city of Louisville at the falls of the Ohio River.
/pg. 126/
Parties including Piankashaws also continue to travel to the Illinois Country, as well as to the Spanish on the western side of the Mississippi River, to Detroit, and to the falls of the Ohio for various purposes.
Population figures continue to be unsatisfactory. No separate estimates of Piankashaw population have been found for this time period.
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