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Wea

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Region: Great Lakes

In the record

The United States made 10 treaties and agreements that name Wea 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 34 cessions of land from Wea: about 26 million acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. 19 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 Wea: Greenville 1795 and Fort Wayne 1809: encroachment, then cession under pressure.

Today, Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma carries 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

WaayaathtanwaMyaamia-Peewaalia (Miami-Illinois)

Land recorded as ceded

Wea About 26 million acres recorded as ceded by the end of 1894

Treaty or agreement2 million
Treaty under documented pressure23 million
Removal treaty100 thousand

Estimate from Royce’s maps; overlapping cessions counted once. Not a survey or legal measure.

34 cessions. Follow Wea through the years on the map

Who is doing the work

This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:

Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma

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 34, as named in the 1899 record

Show all 34

Party to 10

Named in 1

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

Present-day governments that carry this history 1

Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma

Sources

okhistory.org/publications/enc/entryunclassified
The Wea, or Waayaathtanwa , are a North American Indigenous group that are incorporated as part of the broader Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma.

Kind: Nation
Confidence: Medium
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