Atchakangouen

The Atchakangouen, also called the Greater Miami or Crane Band after their leading clan, were the largest band of the Miami, an Algonquian-speaking Great Lakes people. Their principal village was Kekionga, at the meeting of the Saint Joseph, Saint Marys and Maumee on the site of Fort Wayne, Indiana; it was the Miami confederacy's capital, and the French built a post and fort there in 1704.

Displaced west to Wisconsin during the Beaver Wars, the band retook its Indiana and Ohio homelands around the turn of the eighteenth century with French firearms.

War chief Little Turtle belonged to this division and led the Western Confederacy to St. Clair's Defeat in 1791, then made peace after Fallen Timbers and the Treaty of Greenville in 1794 and 1795. By the early nineteenth century the name Miami had come to mean the Atchakangouen above all, as American settlement and debt-driven treaties stripped its lands around Kekionga.