Piankeshaw

The Piankeshaw were a Miami people who lived along the Wabash River in what are now Indiana and Illinois. Their villages included a settlement near Vincennes, and they were closely allied with the neighboring Wea.

During the American Revolution the Piankeshaw generally sided with the Americans, but in 1786 settlers from Vincennes attacked a nearby village along the Embarras River. Some Piankeshaw left for Terre Haute or Kaskaskia; in 1818 their chief Chekommia signed a treaty selling rights to much of their land to the United States.