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Attack on village Artist's illustration of an attack on a Protohistoric Oneota village.

Residents of the Morton site in Fulton County were subjected to raids periodically. The reasons for conflict are not clear.

A new way of Native American life appeared in Illinois seven hundred years ago. Gone were the large Mississippian cities with their monumental mounds. Communities were smaller and simpler. Some parts of Illinois do not appear to have been occupied by Native American between 700 and 300 years ago. What was life like in the last four centuries before the arrival of French explorers in the late 1600s? Native cultures were changing and there was evidence of conflict in some areas.

   
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