Kineepikwaameekwa

Kineepikwameekwa belongs to the history of the Eel River Miami communities in northern Indiana. Eighteenth-century accounts locate their settlements along the Eel near its junction with the Wabash. In 1791 Kentucky militia under James Wilkinson attacked and destroyed the village known as Kenapacomaqua. Wilkinson described a dispersed settlement extending for several miles, with houses separated by wet ground and thickets.

Survivors subsequently settled on Sugar Creek. The United States recognized the Eel River Indians separately in the Treaty of Greenville in 1795. By 1818 they occupied a reservation at Thorntown; in 1828 they sold it and moved towards Pipe Creek. Their history across these decades was marked by military destruction, successive relocations and treaty negotiations, while remaining closely connected with the wider Miami people.