The best book thus far about Illinois Indians and the battles for control of the prairie state during the war of 1812 is a book called "Illinois In The War Of 1812". This book recounts the war with the British and Indians in Illinois and the White and Indian leaders that waged battle for the state. Illinois territory was a new organized area spelt from Indiana and had yet to really being populated by settlers with about equal numbers of Indians and White folks. 
Gilliam Ferguson gives a detailed account of what the state looked like and the battles and atrocities that occurred in Illinois and Indiana during the War of 1812. By is year pioneer families were coming into the rich timberland of Southern Illinois long inhabited by groups of Sauk, Potawatomi, Kickapoo, and Fox Indians and the diplomacy American government played in trying to have the Indians not ally with the British. The Indians though realized more and more pioneers were coming and disrupting their traditional vast hunting lands and game was becoming more and more sparse. This book is of much interest accounting to long forgotten massacres of settlers that occurred in Illinois with accounts of Beatles between rangers and Indians all over Illinois and its sea of prairies which made travel difficult. The oak describes the major enters of Indian power from Saukenuk and a young Lack Hawk to the powerful Kickapoo settlement in Central Illinois to the Potawatomi villages in Peoria to the Winnebago homelands near Prairie Du Chien. This book is organized by chapters of major American commanders at this time including Benjamin Howard, Ninian Edwards, William Henry Harrison, and William Clark. 
A whole chapter explains and details the Fort Dearborn massacre and early Chicago and its small role it played during the war. Not to be outdone the major Indian chiefs are also included with their knowledge and strategy as the played the diplomatic game with the redcoats and blue jackets. Most of the tribes mentioned in this book were relative newcomers in Illinois often displacing fellow Indians themselves in the former Illini confederacy that was basically wiped out as a force from a combination of more powerful tribes and their part in the war of 1812 in Illinois territory was minimal as this book explains.
Gilliam Ferguson gives a detailed account of what the state looked like and the battles and atrocities that occurred in Illinois and Indiana during the War of 1812. By is year pioneer families were coming into the rich timberland of Southern Illinois long inhabited by groups of Sauk, Potawatomi, Kickapoo, and Fox Indians and the diplomacy American government played in trying to have the Indians not ally with the British. The Indians though realized more and more pioneers were coming and disrupting their traditional vast hunting lands and game was becoming more and more sparse. This book is of much interest accounting to long forgotten massacres of settlers that occurred in Illinois with accounts of Beatles between rangers and Indians all over Illinois and its sea of prairies which made travel difficult. The oak describes the major enters of Indian power from Saukenuk and a young Lack Hawk to the powerful Kickapoo settlement in Central Illinois to the Potawatomi villages in Peoria to the Winnebago homelands near Prairie Du Chien. This book is organized by chapters of major American commanders at this time including Benjamin Howard, Ninian Edwards, William Henry Harrison, and William Clark. A whole chapter explains and details the Fort Dearborn massacre and early Chicago and its small role it played during the war. Not to be outdone the major Indian chiefs are also included with their knowledge and strategy as the played the diplomatic game with the redcoats and blue jackets. Most of the tribes mentioned in this book were relative newcomers in Illinois often displacing fellow Indians themselves in the former Illini confederacy that was basically wiped out as a force from a combination of more powerful tribes and their part in the war of 1812 in Illinois territory was minimal as this book explains.
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