Many other places named Peoria and US Navy ships were named after the town in Illinois.
Peoria, Illinois | tribe | Peoria | Tribe | Danes (Germanic tribe) | Tuscarora (tribe) | Seminole (tribe) | Abron tribe | Quraysh (tribe) | Peoria Rivermen | Mughal (tribe) | Sial (tribe) | Quileute (tribe) | Peoria Rivermen (AHL) | Ottawa (tribe) | Narragansett (tribe) | Devil's Tribe | Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis Railroad | B-Tribe | Awan (tribe) | William & Mary Tribe men's basketball | William & Mary Tribe football | William & Mary Tribe | Warm Springs (tribe) | Umatilla (tribe) | Tribe of Judah | Suburban Tribe (band) | SubUrban Tribe | Spiral Tribe | Seminole Tribe of Florida |
In 1831, the Federal Government reacquired part of what would eventually become Ottawa County to resettle some smaller tribes, These included two tribes of Seneca, Shawnee, Quapaw, Peoria, Kaskaskias, Miami, Ottawa and Wyandotte.
Robbie Hedges, chief of the Peoria tribe of Indians of Oklahoma