Miami Nation of Indiana
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The Miami Nation of Indiana is the tribal government of the Miami Indians who legally remained in Indiana after removal in the 1840s. The group's headquarters are at Peru, Indiana.
Frances Slocum Cemetery in Wabash, Indiana. Generations of Miami Nation of Indians of the State of Indiana are buried at this site.
Frances Slocum
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Frances Slocum was an adopted member of the Miami people. Slocum was born into a Quaker family that migrated from Warwick, Rhode Island, in 1777 to the Wyoming Valley in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
Miami Nation of Indiana
…Godfroy's family. The remaining 55 individuals were family members of Metocinyah. In 1845 the Congress passed a resolution that allowed 22 descendants of Frances Slocum and her husband, Shapoconah (Deaf Man), to remain in Indiana. The 148 individuals in these family groups became the nucleus of the present-day Miami…
Frances Slocum (age 66), portrait by George Winter, 1839
Group at Frances Slocum tomb
The capture of Frances Slocum
Frances Slocum and her daughters