Miami Indians
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Name (Hebrew)
מיאמי (שבט אינדואני)
Name (Latin)
Miami Indians
Name (Arabic)
هنود ميامي
Other forms of name
Myaamia Indians
Twatwa Indians
Twightwee Indians
See Also From tracing topical name
Algonquian Indians
Indians of North America Middle West
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q956264
Library of congress:
sh 85084652
Sources of Information
- How the Miami people live, 2008:p. 2 ("snapshot of more than 200 years in the life of the Myaamia (Miami) who once called portions of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin their homeland")
- Myaamia Project, Miami University WWW homepage, Mar. 20, 2009(project in collaboration with the Miami Tribe)
- Angelfire.com website, Mar. 23, 2009(under: Miami people/Twightwee: the Miami Indians originally lived in Indiana and southern Michigan. They moved into the Maumee Valley around A.D. 1700. They soon became the most powerful Indian tribe in Ohio. The Miamis speak a form of the Algonquian Indian language and so are related to the Delaware, Ottawa, and Shawnee Indians; the Miami called themselves Twightwee (Twatwa))