Miami people
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The Miami are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, whose Miami–Illinois language is one of the Algonquian languages. They are a Great Lakes tribe, who historically occupied territory in
Kee-món-saw, Little Chief, a Miami chief, painting by George Catlin
Lithograph of Little Turtle is reputedly based upon a lost portrait by Gilbert Stuart, destroyed when the British burned Washington, D.C. in 1814.
Miami chief Pacanne
Jean Baptiste de Richardville, the main chief of the Miami
Little Turtle
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Little Turtle was a Sagamore of the Miami people, who became one of the most famous Native American military leaders. Historian Wiley Sword calls him "perhaps the most capable Indian leader then in th
Miami people
…of the Kankakee River and Des Plaines Rivers to form the Illinois River about 16 km southwest of today's Joliet, Illinois) Mengakonkia or Mengkonkia, Michikinikwa ("Little Turtle")' people Pepikokia, Pepicokea, later known as Tepicon Band or Tippecanoe Band; autonym: Kiteepihkwana (″People of the Place of the…
Little Turtle Memorial Plaque
Little Turtle, from U.S. Army Military History Institute
Silhouette of Little Turtle by Robert Wyer