Piankashaw
Nation / Tribe

Piankashaw

The Piankashaw (Peanguichia) were a band of the Miami-Illinois confederacy whose homeland was centered on the lower Wabash River valley in present-day Indiana and Illinois. They were closely allied with the Wea and Miami nations and spoke a dialect of the Miami-Illinois Algonquian language. The Piankashaw entered into treaties with the United States that ceded their lands in the Wabash region. They were later consolidated with other Miami-related bands and eventually removed to Indian Territory (Oklahoma), where their descendants are enrolled in the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma.

Portrait: Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia: Piankeshaw (George Catlin, Smithsonian)

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Territory & Encounter Locations

Pin color = Planning (1801–1804) Westward (1804–1805) Fort Clatsop (1805–1806) Return (1806) Post (1806–1812)
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