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====Locations==== [[File:Chief Francis Godfroy (Miami) Burial.jpg|thumb|The grave of Miami Chief Francis Godfroy, located at Chief Francis Godfroy Cemetery in [[Miami County, Indiana]]]] '''United States years'''<ref name=Tanner /><ref name=Rafert /> * 1785 β Delaware villages located near Kekionga (refugees from American settlements) * 1790 β Pickawillany Miami join Kekionga (refugees from American settlements) * 1790 Gen. Josiah Harmar is ordered to attack and destroy Kekionga. On October 17, Harmar's forces burn the evacuated villages but are then defeated by [[Little Turtle]]'s warriors. * 1790-1791 β Rather than rebuilding Kekionga, tribes resettle further down the Maumee River, including at what is now [[Defiance, Ohio]] * 1791 Gen. [[Arthur St. Clair]] attempts to attack Kekionga again and build a fort there, but before he can get there the Western Confederacy attacks his camp and destroys his army near the future [[Fort Recovery]]. * Kentucky Militia destroy Eel River villages. * 1793 December β General [[Anthony Wayne]] launches third invasion and builds Fort Recovery on the site of St. Clair's Defeat. * 1794 June β Fort [[Fort Recovery|Recovery]] repulses attack by Western Confederacy *1794 August β [[Battle of Fallen Timbers]] near modern-day Toledo; Wayne's forces defeat Western Confederacy *1794 September β Wayne's forces march up the Maumee River, burning tribal villages and fields (where tribes resettled after Harmar destroyed Kekionga) for dozens of miles, before reaching the abandoned ruins of Kekionga at its headwaters and building Fort Wayne * 1795 β Tribal leaders sign the Treaty of Greenville, ceding most of what is now Ohio as well as the area around Fort Wayne that includes its historic capital of Kekionga and the Maumee-Wabash land portage * 1809 β Gov. [[William Henry Harrison]] orders destruction of all villages within two days' march of [[Fort Wayne, Indiana|Fort Wayne]]. Villages near [[Columbia City, Indiana|Columbia City]] and [[Huntington, Indiana|Huntington]] destroyed. *1812 17 December β Lt. Col. [[John B. Campbell]] ordered to destroy the Mississinewa villages. Campbell destroys villages and kills 8 Indians and 76 were taken prisoner, including 34 women and children.{{sfn|Gilpin|1968|p=154}} * 1812 18 December, at Silver Heel's village, a sizeable Native American force counterattacked. The American Indians were outnumbered, but fought fiercely to rescue the captured villagers being held by Campbell, A joint cavalry charge led by Major James McDowell and Captains Trotter and Johnston finally broke the attack.{{sfn|Allison|1986|p=224}} an estimated 30 Indians were killed; Americans repulsed and return to Greenville.{{sfn|Gilpin|1968|p=154}} * 1813 July β U.S. Army returns and burns deserted town and crops. * 1817 Maumee Treaty β lose Ft. Wayne area (1400 Miami counted) * 1818 Treaty of St. Mary's ([[New Purchase (1818)|New Purchase]] Treaty) β lose south of the Wabash β Big Miami Reservation created. Grants on the Mississinewa and Wabash given to Josetta Beaubien, Anotoine Bondie, Peter Labadie, Francois Lafontaine, Peter Langlois, Joseph Richardville, and Antoine Rivarre. Miami National Reserve (875,000) created. * 1818 Eel River Miami settle at [[Thorntown, Indiana|Thorntown]], northeast of [[Lebanon, Indiana|Lebanon]]). * 1825 1073 Miami, including the Eel River Miami * 1826 Mississinewa Treaty β Tribe cedes most of its remaining reservation land in northeastern Indiana, which the government wanted to create a right of way for a canal linking Lake Erie to the Wabash River. Miami chief Jean Baptiste de Richardville receives deed to a large personal property and [[Richardville House|funds to build a mansion]] on it for signing. Eel River Miami leave Thorntown, northeast of Lebanon, for Logansport area. * 1834 Western part of the Big Reservation sold ({{convert|208,000|acre|km2}}) * 1838 Potawatomi removed from Indiana. No other Indian tribes in the state. Treaty of 1838 made 43 grants and sold the western portion of the Big Reserve. Richardville exempted from any future removal treaties. Richardsville, Godfroy, Metocina received grants, plus family reserves for Ozahshiquah, Maconzeqyuah (Wife of Benjamin), Osandian, Tahconong, and Wapapincha. * 1840 Remainder of the Big Reservation ({{convert|500,000|acre|km2}}) sold for lands in [[Kansas]]. Godfroy descendants and Meshingomesia (s/o Metocina), sister, brothers and their families exempted from the removal. * 1846 β October 1, removal was supposed to begin. It began October 6 by canal boat. By ship to Kansas Landing [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]] and {{convert|50|mi|km}} overland to the reservation. Reached by 9 November. * 1847 [[Godfroy Reserve]], between the Wabash and Mississinewa * Wife of Benjamin Reserve, east edge of Godfroy * Osandian Reserve, on the Mississinewa, southeast boundary of Godfroy * Wapapincha Reserve, south of Mississinewa at Godfroy/Osandian juncture * Tahkonong Reserve, southeast of Wapapincha south of Mississinewa * Ozahshinquah Reserve, on the Mississinewa River, southeast of Peoria * Meshingomesa Reserve, north side of Mississinewa from Somerset to Jalapa (northwest Grant County) * 1872 Most reserves were partially sold to non-Indians. * 1922 All reserves were sold for debt or taxes for the Miamis.
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