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The people's own record. David J. Costa, editor and translator, myaamia neehi peewaalia aacimoona neehi aalhsoohkaana: Myaamia and Peoria Narratives and Winter Stories. Oxford, Ohio: Myaamia Project at Miami University, 2010 (ISBN 978-0-9765837-6-9). The first collection of Miami-Illinois texts ever published — forty-five texts, twenty-nine of them in the Myaamia, Peoria or Wea dialects with English translations, collected from the 1890s through 1916. The emergence narrative this record prints is at pages 52–53, in the community's own telling, cited to the community's own book.
Around it stands the working scholarship the tribes and folklore legs used throughout: the Myaamia Center's community-history essays on its Aacimotaatiiyankwi blog (George Ironstrack and colleagues, including the removal essays of 2020–2024); the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma's myaamiaki aancihsaaciki: A Cultural Exploration of the Myaamia Removal Route (2011); Stewart Rafert, The Miami Indians of Indiana: A Persistent People, 1654–1994 (Indiana Historical Society, 1996) — the annuity and treaty figures in the land leg are Rafert's summaries, checked against the treaty texts; Bert Anson, The Miami Indians (University of Oklahoma Press, 1970); Harvey Lewis Carter, The Life and Times of Little Turtle: First Sagamore of the Wabash (University of Illinois Press, 1987); R. David Edmunds's studies of the Potawatomis, the Shawnee Prophet and Little Turtle; Helen Hornbeck Tanner, ed., Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History (1987); Colin G. Calloway, The Victory with No Name: The Native American Defeat of the First American Army (Oxford, 2015), for St. Clair's defeat; Michael McCafferty, Native American Place Names of Indiana (2008) — the Kekionga etymology debate is printed as McCafferty frames it, a debate, not a derivation; and the Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin anthropological report on the Miamis, Weas and Eel River Indians, prepared for the Indian Claims Commission and used here for the village record.
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- The tribes, before-the-city, land and folklore legs.