THE MIAMI WERE ORIGINALLY FOUND IN INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN. THE MIAMI IN OKLAHOMA ARE FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED. THE MIAMI CALLED THEMSELVES THE TWIGHTWEE OR A SACRED BIRD, THE SANDHILL CRANE. THE EARLY PEOPLE CONSIDERED THEM TO BELONG TO THE FISHER TRADITION OF MISSISSIPPI. THEIR SOCIETIES WERE MAIZE BASED AGRICULTURE WITH CHIEFDOM SOCIAL INTERACTION.
THEY HUNTED AND MIGRATED FROM WISCONSIN IN 1650'S TO 1750'S. THEY WERE INVADED BY IROQUOIS.
THE FRENCH MISSIONARIES MET THEM IN 1650'S - THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE WERE AROUND THE WESTERN PART OF LAKE MICHIGAN. IN 1700 THE FRENCH BEFRIENDED THE MIAMI PEOPLE SETTLING ON THE ST. JOSEPH RIVER AND ESTABLISHED A TRADING POST NEAR FORT WAYNE INDIANA. THE ALLIANCES SHIFTED AND CHIEF LITTLE TURTLE GROUPED THREE TRIBES - THE MIAMI. PIANKSHAW, AND WEA INTO ONE. THE NEXT 100 YEARS SAW3 MANY WARS WITH FRENCH,BRITISH, AND NATIVE AMERICANS. TREATY OF MISSISSIPPI WAS IN 1826. IT FORCED THE THE MIAMI TO CEDE THEIR LAND TO THE GOVERNMENT.
SOME OF THEIR LAND WAS HELD PRIVATELY. BY 1846 INDIAN REMOVAL OF THESE FOLKS WAS ABLE TO STAY AS CITIZENS IN INDIANA. OTHERS WERE REMOVED TO A RESERVATION WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI - THEN TO OKLAHOMA. TODAY THERE IS STILL A DIVIDE.
IN 1993 THE EASTERN MIAMI WERE RECOGNIZED BY THE U.S. IN 1854 TREATY AND THEY HAD NO RIGHT TO STRIP THEM OF STATUS. BUT THEY COULD NOT SUE.
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