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Miamis

Miamis \Mi*a"mis\, n. pl.; sing. Miami. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians that formerly occupied the country between the Wabash and Maumee rivers.

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Foxes, Winnebagoes, and Menominies from Wisconsin, Miamis from the St.

As 1812 drew to a close, Harrison destroyed villages of the Miami Indians near Fort Wayne (despite the fact that Miamis were noncombatants), and he raided what amounted to Indian refugee camps near present-day Peru, Indiana.