Miamis
The Miamis, or Miami people, are Indigenous peoples of North America whose traditional homeland lay in the Great Lakes region. Their core territory extended along the Maumee and Wabash rivers, spanning parts of present-day Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. The exonym Miami derives from their own name Myaami or Myaamiaki, and it has been used since the colonial era to refer to the group as a whole.
They spoke the Miami-Illinois language, an Algonquian language closely related to languages spoken by neighboring tribes.
Historically, the Miami formed villages with mixed farming and hunting economies and operated within extensive trade
Today there are two primary groups associated with the Miami name: the federally recognized Miami Tribe of