Atchakangouen

The Atchakangouen, or Crane band, were the largest division of the Miami people. Their main village, Kekionga, stood where the St. Joseph and St. Marys rivers form the Maumee in present-day Indiana.

In 1780 their war chief Little Turtle defeated Augustin de La Balme's force after it plundered Kekionga. He later led a Native confederation against the United States, defeating General Arthur St. Clair's army in 1791. During the nineteenth century the name Miami came to refer particularly to the Atchakangouen.