The Miami lived at various times in other parts of Illinois, but not on the 2.6 million acres the tribe now contends it owns. That claim stems from a land swap the tribe made with the federal ...

The state has sent a message to the nervous landowners who have been sued by an American Indian tribe seeking to regain 2.6 million acres of Illinois: Hire your own lawyer. In a letter from the Off… ...

PAXTON, Ill. -- A century and a half ago, U.S. Army troops herded the Miami Indians of the upper Midwest at gunpoint onto canal barges and deported them to Kansas, leaving Illinois -- a state with ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- Fifteen property owners are seeking allies in their legal fight against the Miami Indians' attempt to reclaim 2.6 million acres in east central Illinois.

The artifacts there were acquired by colonizers from Illinois-based tribes during the 1600s and 1700s and are similar to what Miami and Peoria peoples would have been creating during the same time ...

The Miami Tribe of Oklahoma's annual Winter Gathering, held the last weekend in January, ... In the late 1980s, David Costa, Ph.d., began studying the Miami-Illinois language.

The Miami-Illinois language of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma (Myaamiaki tribe) fell dormant during the 19th and 20th centuries, at a time when Indigenous populations faced forced relocations and ...

These Indigenous Chicagoans are on a mission to save the language that named the city. Chicago, or “shikaakwa,” means “wild onions” in Myaamiaataweenki – also known as Miami-Illinois.

The Indianapolis Indians, the Class AAA affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates, announced Wednesday that it will not change its team name and is instead partnering with a local Native American tribe.