The Miami Nation: A Middle Path for Indigenous Nationhood

As the United States sought to expand its territorial holdings at the start of the nineteenth century into what is now Ohio and Indiana, the Indigenous Miami (Myaamia) peoples of the Wabash River Valley came together to form a united front to protect their lands and their people.The Miami National Council was designed by its founders to allow the Myaamia people and their leaders to engage with the federal government and American culture on their own terms. The Miami Nation tells the fascinating history of both politics and people.Skillfully weaving together oral narratives, archival research, existing published histories, and his own family's recollections and stories, Aamaawia John Bickers illustrates the broader strategies and forces that affected how the Miami Nation responded to American imperial expansion, illuminating the challenges, achievements, and occasional missteps taken by individual tribe members along the way.Bickers begins with the formation of the Miami National Counci