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Miami Indians,
An Algonquian family that, when discovered by the French in 1658, were seated near Green Bay, Wis.; and their chief, having a body-guard, was treated with more reverence than was usual among the Northern Indians.
The English and the Five Nations called them Twightwees.
In 1683 they and their kindred (the Illinois) were attacked by the Iroquois Indians (q. v.), whom they drove back, though engaged at the same time in war with the fiery Sioux.
Acting alternately as friends and foes of the French, they were ruthless, and were not trusted by Europeans.
Some of them were with De Nonville in his expedition against the Five Nations in 1687; and they joined the Iroquois against the Hurons and opened intercourse with the English.
In their wars with the French and the Sioux the Miamis lost heavily; and, finally, in 1721, they were mostly seated upon the St. Joseph and the Maumee, near Fort Wayne, Ind. Miami and Maumee are the same, the latter simply showing the French p