The Miami Indians

by Bert Anson

Book Overview

One of the small group of tribes comprising the Illinois division of the Algonquian linguistic family, the Miamis emerged as a pivotal tribe only during the French and British imperial wars, the Miami Confederacy wars of the eighteenth century, and the treaty-making period of the nineteenth century. The Miamis reached their peak of political importance in the Indian confederacies which blocked the Northwest Territory in the 1790's and during the War...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806131977
• ISBN13: 9780806131979
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"