The state of Illinois and the river before it were named for the Illinois Confederation, who once inhabited areas of Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Arkansas. The Grand Village of the Illinois, now a historic site, was once a large settlement along the Illinois River across from present-day Starved Rock. The Peoria, a sub-tribe of the Illinois, frequented the site throughout the 1700s. By the 1800s the Illinois were forced from their lands through various treaties to settle in areas of Missouri in 1832, Kansas in 1854, and Oklahoma in 1867. Today the descendants of the Illinois belong to the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma. The Illinois lived off the land in a season-by-season pattern of hunting, gathering, and farming. Crops such as maize were planted in the fertile soils in spring, villagers left in summer for the great bison hunt among the tall grass prairies, the harvest took place in autumn, and corn was stored over winter as villagers broke into smaller encampments to hunt for animals such as beaver, bison, deer, geese, and turkey. The term "shelling corn" originated from using mussels to remove the kernels of corn from the cob.