Myaamia

The Myaamia group gathers the Algonquian peoples who spoke Miami-Illinois, the Miami and their Illinois neighbours around the southern Great Lakes. The Miami included the Atchakangouen, Wea, Piankeshaw and Pepikokia bands. Maize farmers and hunters, they were driven to the west shore of Lake Michigan by Iroquois raids in the Beaver Wars.

Around 1700 they returned to the Wabash and Maumee valleys with French firearms and trade, and their capital Kekionga stood where Fort Wayne now is. The Miami of Kekionga stayed allied with Britain through the American Revolution, and under Chief Little Turtle they led the Western Confederacy in the Northwest Indian War against the United States. Most were removed west in the 1820s and 1830s.