Chief Michikinikwa - I43360 - Individual Information - Wisconsin and Illinois Genealogy

Chief Michikinikwa (I43360)

Given Names: Chief Michikinikwa

Gender: Male

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Given Names: ‎Little Turtle

Birth: 1752 -- Miami Indian Territory now Whitley County IN, on the Eel River
Death: 14 July 1812 -- Kekionga ‎(now part of Indiana)‎

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Birth	1752 Miami Indian Territory now Whitley County IN, on the Eel River
Death	14 July 1812 (Age 60) Kekionga ‎(now part of Indiana)‎
Universal Identifier	53DEE2BCDDB12740AB99E69D2EAEA1BFC796
Burial	Ancestral burial ground near what is now Fort Wayne IN
Last Change	15 January 2007 - 00:51:52 Last changed by: dcoplien

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The name 'Miami' derives from the tribe's name for themselves in their own language, Myaamia ‎(plural Myaamiaki)‎.

The French authors commonly divided the Miami into six bands: Piankashaw, Wea, Atchatchakangouen, Kilatika, MengakonkiaPepicokia. Of these the first two have come to be recognized, as distinct tribes; the other names are no longer known. The Pepicokia, mentioned in 1796 with the Wea and Piankashaw, may have been absorbed by the a band known as Eel Rivers, formerly living near Thorntown, Boone county, Ind., but they afterward joined the main body on the Wabash.
According to Morgan ‎(Anc. Soc., 168, 1877)‎ the Miami have 10 gentes: ‎(1)‎ Mowhawa‎(wolf)‎, ‎(2)‎ Mongwa ‎(loon)‎, ‎(3)‎ Kendawa ‎(eagle)‎, ‎(4)‎ Alipakosea ‎(buzzard)‎, ‎(5)‎ hanozawa ‎(Kanwasowau, panther)‎, ‎(6)‎ I'ilawa ‎(turkey)‎, ‎(7)‎ Ahseponna ‎(raccoon)‎, ‎(8)‎ Monnato ‎(snow)‎, ‎(9)‎ Kulswa ‎(sun)‎, ‎(10)‎ Water.

Among the Miami villages were:
ChicagoChippekawkay Choppatee's villageKekionga KenapaconiaquaKokomo Kowasikka Little Turtle's VillageMeshingomesiaMissinquinieschan ‎(Piankashaw)‎ MississinewaOsaga PahedketchaPiankashaw ‎(Piankashaw)‎ PickawillaneeRaccoon's village Seek's villageSt Francis Xavier ‎(mission, with others)‎ Thorntown ‎(Eel River Miami)‎

Osage. A former Miami village on Wabash river, just west, of the Mississinewa, in Miami county, Ind. It was so called from its being the residence of an Osage Indian domiciliated among the Miami, and whose name appears in treaties as Osage and Osage the Neutral ‎(J. P. Dunn, inf'n, 1907)‎. In 1838 the site was included in an individual reserve granted to Richardville, the Miami chief

For Little Turtles biography, see notes with daughter Polly

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Note: Chief Michikinikwa ‎(Little Turtle)‎ of the Miami Tribe is the 3rd Great Grandfather of Lillias Lanor ‎(Rockey)‎ Zimmerman and Irene Frances ‎(Wells)‎ Zimmerman. Irene and Lanor married sons of Owen Zimmerman. Their husbands 3rd Great Grandfather, John Jacob Walter survived the Wyoming Massacre ‎(PA)‎ which was probably lead by Michikinikwa's father, Chief Acquenacque of the Delaware Miami.

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