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Miami Indian Tribe
In 1658 were found on Green Bay, Wisconsin, and in 1670 near the head of Fox
River, and were then said to number 8,000 warriors, living in mat houses within
a palisade. Their early history is full of their many engagements with Iroquois,
Sioux, and the French, in all of which they lost heavily. Sided with the English
in the revolutionary war, continuing hostile to the United States until 1815.
They then numbered 3,000, but their wars had left them in a badly demoralized
condition, leading to broils among themselves, in which nearly 500 perished in
eighteen years. In 1835 a portion, numbering 384, were removed from Indiana to
the south side of the Kansas River. By 1838 the Miami remaining in Indiana, then
numbering 1,100, sold the rest of their lands 5 and in 1846 500 of them removed
to Kansas, where in twenty-two years they were reduced to 92. In 1873 their
lands were sold, when most of the tribe confederated with the Peoria, a few
remaining in Kansas as citizens. Are now very much scattered, with no agency of
their own, and number, as near as can be ascertained, less than 100. The
subjects of the following photographs are of mixed blood:
List of illustrations.
419. Lum-Ki-Kom.
420. Thos. Miller.
421. Joe Dick
422-4. Roubideaux.
425. Thos. Richardwell.
426. Roubideaux and Richardwell.
- Other Miami Indian
Resources
Photographs of North American Indians
Descriptive Catalogue, Photographs Of North American Indians. United States Geological Survey
of the Territories, 1877 by W. H. Jackson, Photographer of the Survey,
F. V. Hayden, U. S. Geologist.
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