Nation

Miami

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Region: Great Lakes

In the record

The United States made 14 treaties and agreements that name Miami as a party, from Treaty of Greenville, 1795 to Seneca; Mixed Seneca and Shawnee; Quapaw; Confederated Peoria, Kaskaskia, Wea, and Piankashaw; Miami; Ottawa; and Wyandot at Washington, DC (1867).

C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 42 cessions of land from Miami between 1795 and 1873: about 36 million acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. 22 of them came through treaties made under documented pressure. The largest was Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Indiana and Ohio, ceded 1795 (area 11), about 19 million acres, ceded under Treaty of Greenville, 1795.

The atlas records 1 broken treaty promise involving Miami: Greenville 1795 and Fort Wayne 1809: encroachment, then cession under pressure.

Today, Miami Nation of Indians of the State of Indiana, Inc. and Miami Tribe of Oklahoma carry this history, as their own pages or research records say.

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.

Treaty or agreementTreaty under documented pressureRemoval treatyShapes from the 1899 federal record: approximate, not legal boundaries.

Names

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Self-names

myaamiaMyaamia (Miami-Illinois); lower case as written by the Tribe
myaamiakiMyaamia (plural)

Names in treaties and records

TwightweesEnglish (colonial)

Other names in English

Miami

Land recorded as ceded

Miami About 36 million acres recorded as ceded by the end of 1894

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

This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:

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

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Connections

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Land recorded in this nation’s name 42, as named in the 1899 record

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Party to 14

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Present-day governments that carry this history 2

Named in 1

Greenville 1795 and Fort Wayne 1809: encroachment, then cession under pressure1795

Sources

okhistory.org/publications/enc/entryunclassified
Twightwees, the English name for the tribe, was derived from a Miami term meaning "cry of the crane."
miamination.com/about-us/unclassified
Today you will hear our name pronounced Miami, a derivation of our traditional name.
miamination.com/unclassified
kiiloona myaamiaki, we are myaamiaki.

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