The Miami people were historically made up of several prominent subgroups, including the Piankeshaw, Wea, Pepikokia, Kilatika, Mengakonkia, and Atchakangouen.
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10 Facts About Miami people
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In modern times, Miami people is used more specifically to refer to the Atchakangouen.
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Name Miami people derives from Myaamia, the tribe's autonym in their Algonquian language of Miami people-Illinois.
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Some Miami people have stated that this was only a name used by other tribes for the Miami people, and not their autonym.
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Early Miami people are considered to belong to the Fischer Tradition of Mississippian culture.
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The historical Miami engaged in hunting, as did other Mississippian peoples.
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Around the beginning of the 18th Century, with support from French traders coming down from what is Canada, and who supplied them with firearms and wanted to trade with them for furs, the Miami people pushed back into their historical territory and resettled it.
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Miami people befriended the Miami people, settling first at the St Joseph River, and, in 1704, establishing a trading post and fort at Kekionga, present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, the de facto Miami capital which controlled an important land portage linking the Maumee River to the Wabash River.
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However many other Indiana-based Miami people still consider themselves a separate group that has been unfairly denied separate federal recognition.
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