Nation
Miami Nation of Indians of the State of Indiana, Inc.Miami Nation of Indians of the State of Indiana, Inc.
Not yet reviewed by this nation. What follows comes from public records and research. It does not speak for the nation.
- Recorded status
- Petitioning for federal acknowledgment
- Website
- https://www.miamiindians.org
- Region
- Indiana
In the record
This nation carries the history of Miami in the treaty record.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.
The record over time
Circles are land the United States recorded as ceded, sized by acres and colored by how it was taken. Bars are treaties, broken promises, court cases and land returns.
Recognition, as each source states it
Recognition is a legal and political status that governments assign; it is not a measure of who a people are.
- Petitioning for federal acknowledgment, IndianaDescends by its own account from Miami who resisted 1830s-40s removal treaties; plaintiff in Miami Nation of Indians of Indiana v. Babbitt (N.D. Ind. 1996, 2000; 7th Cir.); re-petition R001 'Awaiting Active Consideration' (request noticed 90 FR 41409, Aug. 25, 2025).source
Land recorded as ceded
This nation carries the history of peoples named in Royce’s schedule. Their record:
- Treaty or agreement4 million
- Treaty under documented pressure31 million
- Removal treaty540 thousand
Estimate from Royce’s maps; overlapping cessions counted once. Not a survey or legal measure.
42 cessions. Follow Miami through the years on the map
Who is doing the work
Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
Gifts go straight to each organization; this atlas takes nothing. Listing is not endorsement: how organizations are listed.
Connections
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Carries the treaty history of 1
Sources
- courtlistener.com/legal text copy
Miami Nation of Indians of Indiana v. Babbitt (N.D. Ind. 2000) Date Filed: July 26th, 2000
- miamiindians.org/history-and-cultureunclassified
However, in 1832, Chief Richardville signed a treaty allowing the removal of all Miami except his own family near Fort Wayne.
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