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ENDONYMS BEFORE EXONYMS
The peoples of this valley name themselves, and this section prints their own names first: the Potawatomi are the Bodéwadmi — the people of the fire, keepers of the council fire in the Three Fires' own account of themselves. The Miami, whose country lay southeast of this ground along the Wabash and the Maumee, are the Myaamia. Both names are printed here because both nations appear in this section — the Bodéwadmi as this ground's people, the Myaamia at the distance the record keeps them: their chiefs' reserves, Flat Belly's and Seek's, enter the treaty calls as boundary points far from this township, and no Miami village, reserve or burial is recorded on this ground in anything reached for this build. The exonyms — Potawatomi, Miami — are the names the treaties and the county histories use, and the articles below use them where they quote those records, but the endonyms govern this section's own voice.