sentences:  Benjamin Drake, writing in 1848, records that the Michigamie, along with the other bands in the Illinois Confederation, had been attacked by a general confederation of the Sauk, Fox, Sioux, Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatamies, along with the Cherokee and Choctawa from the south.The war continued for a great many years until the Illinois Confederation was destroyed.Drake records that by 1826 only about 500 members of the Confederation remained.