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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 354 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MIAMI , a tribe of See also:

North See also:American See also:Indians of Algonquian stock. The See also:English called them Twightwees, a corruption of the native name, which meant the cry of the See also:crane. They were first found in See also:south-eastern See also:Wisconsin, and in 1764 numbered about 1750. Their See also:civilization was advanced and they lived in stockaded towns. They took See also:part in See also:Pontiac's See also:conspiracy in 1764 and in the American See also:War of See also:Independence and American War of 1812 they fought on the English See also:side. At the See also:close of this war they were greatly reduced in See also:numbers. A few Miami still live on a See also:reservation in See also:Oklahoma and in See also:Wabash See also:county, See also:Indiana.

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