(Big) Prairie People/Little Prairie People

[Koontz John E]

I asked a while back if the Mascouten as "Little Prarie People" might be
named in opposition to a "(Big) Prairie People" - "little people of the
prairie" as opposed to "people of the little priarie"?

I've noticed that Carl Masthay, in his Kaskaskia Illinois dictionary (p.
23) lists "Masc8tea = Illinois peuple 'Illinois, especially the Peoria'
and "Masc8tenta = Masc8tins peuple '(people of the) small prairie (spoke
dialect of Sauk-Fox-Kickapoo)."

Would this be the requisite opposed term?

John E. Koontz