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Piankeshaw
 Ni-a-có-mo, Fix With the Foot, a Brave by George Catlin, oil on canvas, 1830 | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| extinct as a tribe | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| United States (Indiana, Ohio, Illinois) | |
| Languages | |
| Miami–Illinois | |
| Religion | |
| Traditional tribal religion | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Miami, Wea, Illinois |
The Piankeshaw, Piankashaw or Pianguichia were members of the Miami tribe who lived apart from the rest of the Miami nation, therefore they were known as Peeyankihšiaki ("splitting off" from the others, Sing.: Peeyankihšia - "Piankeshaw Person"). When European settlers arrived in the region in the 1600s, the Piankeshaw lived in an area along the south central Wabash River that now includes western Indiana and Illinois. Their territory was to the north of Kickapoo (around Vincennes) and the south of the Wea (centered on Ouiatenon). They were closely allied with the Wea, another group of Miamis.[1] The Piankashaw were living along the Vermilion River in 1743.[2][3]
- ^ Dorothy Libby, Summary of Piankashaw Locations (1708- ca. 1763) Archived 2008-12-10 at the Wayback Machine pp. 58 - 62.
- ^ Anthropological report on the Piankashaw Archived 2009-03-11 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Jones, Lottie E. (1911). "Chapter III: Piankeshaw". History of Vermilion County, Illinois. Vol. 1. Chicago: Pioneer Publishing Company. pp. 24–31. Retrieved 20 December 2022 – via Genealogy Trails, transcribed by Barbara Ziegenmeyer.
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