Mineami

Mineami lies in the west-central Ohio country, where the Mad River and the Great Miami River drain rolling prairie and river woods. The Miami people, called Myaamia by themselves, lived here with Shawnee and Wyandot neighbours, growing corn on the river terraces and hunting deer and bear in the woods. Their trading town of Pickawillany stood on the Great Miami, and in 1752 a force of Ojibwe and Ottawa warriors, backed by French officers, destroyed it after its chief had welcomed British traders. The Miami later formed a confederacy against American expansion, but their defeat at Fallen Timbers in 1794 led to the Treaty of Greenville in 1795, which opened much of western Ohio to settlement.