| Lcnaf uri | http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084652 |
| Organization name | Miami indians |
| Other names | Miamy;Miamie;Myaamia;Twatwa;Twightwee;Mississinaway |
| Org type | Indian group |
| Bio notes | Miamie, Miamy, Twightwee or autonym Myaamia (the downstream people). An Algonquian-speaking people residing in the Great Lakes region, specifically around Western Lake Michigan. Their first European contacts were both Jesuit missions as well as French and English colonial projects, the effects of which—a combination of war and disease— devastated the local population. The pressure of advancing settlers led to some consolidation of the fragmented tribes. Their response to the Revolutionary War was mixed, with some Miami supporting the Revolutionaries, others the British, and many professing no open hostility to either. Regardless, in an effort to secure its newly-won territory after the war, the United States began the Northwest Indian War (1785-1795) against a large confederacy of Indian tribes in the recently vacated Northwest Territory, among which were the Miami and their famous leader, Little Turtle. The aftermath of this campaign was a series of major land cessions, particular examples being the Treaty of Greenville (1795) and the Treaty of Mississiniwas (1825). Some Miami became US citizens and retained individual ownership of their native land in Indiana, while those who chose to retain sovereignty migrated first to Kansas, and then to Oklahoma. |
| Citations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_people ; http://miamination.com/node/11 |
A Brief Account of the Proceedings of the Committee Appointed by the Yearly Meeting of Friends, Held in Baltimore for Promoting the Improvement and Civilization of the Indian Natives
Baltimore Yearly Meeting Indian Committee Minutes, 1795-1815
A Mission to the Indians from the Indian Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting to Fort Wayne, in 1804
Jacob Lindley's Account, 1793
Joseph Moore's Journal
Letter to the Shawanese, Delawares & others from Quakers of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 1795
New York Yearly Meeting Committee on Indian Concerns Scrapbook
Life of Thomas Eddy
Wm. Hartshorne's Journal of Journey to Detroit 1793