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Kekionga · Miami · Civil chief of the Miami at Kekionga
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Pacanne — P'Koum-Kwa, a name Henry Hamilton's 1778 journal glossed as "The Nut" (pecan) — was the leading Miami civil chief of Kekionga in the decades before Richardville. He was a son of The Turtle (Aquenackqua), brother of Tacumwah, and probably a nephew of Cold Foot, the Kekionga chief who died in the smallpox epidemic of 1751–52. Hamilton sketched him in 1778, and through the Revolutionary era Pacanne steered the Kekionga Miami between the British, the Americans, and the western confederacy. He did not attend the Treaty of Greenville in 1795; he sent his nephew Jean Baptiste de Richardville in his place. He died in 1816 (one modern Fort Wayne account implies 1814) and was succeeded as principal chief by Richardville.
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Sources: Wikipedia, "Pacanne"; Carter, The Life and Times of Little Turtle (1987).