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 Little Turtle - Kekionga
Kekionga was the largest and most important of the Miami Indian villages.
The name Kekionga is said to mean "flberry patch." According to another Miami tradition, the name may also have meant that this was the most ancient village of the Miami in this region.
The loose confederation of tribes that emerged in the three rivers area came to be known as Miamitown, or Kekionga to the Indians.
littleturtle.net /kekionga.shtml   (3203 words)

  
 Kekionga Middle School in Fort Wayne, Indiana/IN - School Tree
Kekionga Middle School is classified as a "Middle School".
Kekionga Middle School was operational at the time of the last report and is currently operational.
Kekionga Middle School IS NOT a Magnet school.
indiana.schooltree.org /public/Kekionga-Middle-029610.html   (192 words)

  
 Marie Thérèsa Lasselle
Kekionga was an important post in the fur trade and presumably the British conferred this commission on Lasselle because of his familiarity with the native people there.
Kekionga straddled the portage between the Maumee and Wabash rivers.
They still appeared a formidable force and on their approach to Kekionga, the inhabitants—and especially those with known connections to the British like the Lasselles—hastily fled down the Maumee with little more than the clothes on their backs.
www.michiganhistorymagazine.com /extra/women/lasselle.html   (1722 words)

  
 News-Sentinel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
It also was a great trial for the assembled Indians, who had gathered at Kekionga to withstand by arms the onrush of white settlement into the "Ohio Country," which included what is now Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Illinois.
In the Miamis' language, Kekionga means "hair-clipping place," reflecting the warriors' tradition of preparing their top knot of hair in readiness for battle.
The federal government and the Army were so appalled by the defeat that four years later, in 1794, Gen. "Mad" Anthony Wayne, who finally defeated the Indians in the Ohio Country, chose the anniversary date of the Kekionga battle to dedicate the new (and last) fort he built in the Indian homeland.
jordan.fortwayne.com /ns/heartland/history/haw23.php   (683 words)

  
 Aug02.htm
On October 19, 1790, Col. John Hardin, leading a part of Gen. Josiah Harmar's army from Kekionga, came along this trail west of Ft. Wayne looking for Indians (using the traditional term for Native Americans).
After taking possession of Kekionga from which the Indians had fled upon the approach of Harmar's army, the Americans next gave attention to the Indian stronghold on Eel River.
Kekionga could be reached by a portage of fourteen miles.
www.mcs.k12.in.us /histsoc/Aug02.htm   (5422 words)

  
 RELATIONS
TACUMAWAH-Parakeet- Marie Louis Pacanne Richerville- she was born at Kekionga sometime in the 1720's and latter married a Frenchman named Joseph drouet de la Richerville who was a member of the garrison and listed as a lieutenant at Ft. St.
The French would come to know her as "Une Cheifress" of the village of Lalabiche (Kekionga) because she controlled the fur trade at this place and into the valley of the Wabash at the Forks or Flint Springs (Huntington, Indiana).
CHIEF RICHARDVILLE- He was born at Kekionga at the confluence of the three rivers near a 300 year old apple tree to Tacumwah and her husband, Joseph Richerville in 1761.
www.leveillee.net /ancestry/ouabankekoue.htm   (2372 words)

  
 Anthropological Report Docket No. 317 (Cons.)
By 1778 the village of "Le Petit Gris" (Le Gris' son?) was situated near present Fort Wayne, Indiana and was one of two Miami villages in that vicinity, the other one being Kekionga.
The NNW movements of Miamis to the St. Joseph River region in the vicinity of Niles, Michigan and South Bend, Indiana took them around 70 miles from Kekionga; the other NNW move of Le Gris' band to the upper Tippecanoe took this group some 40 miles NNW from Kekionga.
After Kekionga was burnt in 1790 the Miamis fled, first to the Elkhart River in northern Indiana and thence to Detroit.
www.gbl.indiana.edu /archives/dockett_317a/317a_3g.html   (1292 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : Kekionga!: The Worst Defeat in the History of the U.S. Army: Livres en anglais: Wilbur Edel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Amazon.fr : Kekionga!: The Worst Defeat in the History of the U.S. Army: Livres en anglais: Wilbur Edel
It also sets in world perspective the savagery of the French and Indian Wars, disposing of the myth that brutally inhumane treatment of the enemy was characteristic only of Indian fighting methods.
Subsequent to the Indians' supression after Kekionga, government and private indifference to Indian rights and gross mistreatment persisted until the last quarter of the 20th century.
www.amazon.fr /Kekionga-Worst-Defeat-History-U-S/dp/0275958213   (310 words)

  
 Adams County Parks&Recreation | Decatur, Indiana
Kekionga Park is located off of Mercer on Locust Street.
There are spots to put in canoes for a leisure paddle down the St. Mary's River, there are extensive trails for hiking and biking.
They are clearly marked with the Rivergreenway signs and stretch from Kekionga to Riverside Center and beyond.
www.co.adams.in.us /parksandrec/parks.htm   (1666 words)

  
 Big Things: Pam Bliss
But minicomics remain her first love, with stories ranging "from kid's club adventures to time travel to the weirdness of everyday life to autobiography".
What all these stories have in common is their setting - the small town of Kekionga, Indiana, "where anything can happen, and usually does".
After that Kekionga, with its own history, ecology, et cetera, just seemed to assemble itself out of fragments that were suggested by other fragments.
www.ninthart.com /display.php?article=722   (1101 words)

  
 Little Turtle - Battle of St. Clair
His mission, set forth in a 4,500-word document from Secretary of War Henry Knox, was to "establish a strong and permanent military post" at the Miami village of Kekionga, something General Josiah Harmar had failed to do the previous October when his troops were defeated around the area that would eventually become Fort Wayne.
At the time Washington picked him to lead an army to Kekionga, Arthur St. Clair was 55 and afflicted with a very bad case of gout.
Only the Miami Indians took action, moving from Kekionga to near what is now Toledo to be closer to the British fort.
littleturtle.net /battle_stclair.shtml   (1533 words)

  
 Allen County - Fort Wayne Historical Society
The Summit City boys were such a well knit and aggressive group that Allen Hamilton donated a piece of land at the southwest corner of Lewis and Calhoun Streets to be used as a site for all organized baseball games of that era.
The first game of the National League of Professional Baseball Players was played on May 4, 1871, between the Fort Wayne Kekiongas and the Cleveland Forest Citys.
The old ball grounds was located just west of the Main Street bridge on land to the north of Main Street running almost to the canal (presently the tracks of the Nickel Plate Railroad).
www.fwhistorycenter.com /ahfaq.htm   (804 words)

  
 Kekionga Middle School - Fort Wayne, Indiana - IN - school overview
I think that Kekionga is doing probably the best they can with what they have.
As kids continue to flock to sites like MySpace, and the backlash from parents and the media fades, it's time to take a fresh look at social networking.  More...
An opportunity for the principal at Kekionga Middle School to speak about curriculum, special programs, activities, goals and more.
www.greatschools.net /modperl/browse_school/in/535   (195 words)

  
 My Hometown: Anthony Spencer :: Take a trip to Fort Wayne, Ind.
Brief History: The first settlement, called Kekionga, was established at the Maumee, St. Joseph and St. Mary's rivers in the mid-1600s by the Miami Tribe.
The fort was renamed "Fort Miami." By 1763, various Native American nations rebelled against British rule and retook the fort as part of Pontiac's Rebellion.
Three battles were fought in Kekionga against Little Turtle and the Miami Confederacy.
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 Augustin de La Balme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The success of General Clark’s capture of Fort Sackville at Vincennes suggested and inspired La Balme to attempt a similar feat against the British at Fort Detroit.
Upon learning of the return of a Miami hunting party to Kekionga, Le Balme departed to raid another trading post on Eel River.
Leaving some twenty men to guard the captured stores at Kekionga, his force marched out over the Eel River trail, the same trail Colonel John Hardin followed ten years later.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Augustin_de_La_Balme   (839 words)

  
 Fallen Timbers Service Plaza
It became necessary for the United States Government to send three armies into the Indian country in order to break the resistance of the Indians and to destroy their stronghold at Kekionga.
General Arthur St. Clair, Governor of the Northwest Territory, attempted in 1790 to negotiate a peaceful settlement with the Indians.
In an encounter at Kekionga, the Americans were routed by Indian forces led by Little Turtle, the great Miami chief.
www.ohioturnpike.org /sp_fallen_timbers.html   (867 words)

  
 Historical Society Whitley County Indiana Genealogical Purchasers of Land Patents Original Owners
He decided he wanted to gain Kekionga (now Fort Wayne) and Detroit for the Americans.
After wrongly thinking they"d reached a peace agreement with the Miami Indians, they camped near the spot where the battle took place and were attacked by Little Turtle and his warriors.
The fur trade the Indians took part in had become controlled by the British, as was Detroit, and after the raid on Kekionga, two prominent British-friendly fur traders urged the Indians to seek revenge.
historical.whitleynet.org /lebalme.htm   (617 words)

  
 Wilbur Edel
Abstract: Political scientist Wilbur Edel was born in 1915 in Yonkers.
General Josiah Harmar led American troops to Kekionga, the site of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, to defeat the forces of Chief Little Turtle.
Kekionga!: The Worst Defeat in the History of the U.S. Army.
www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu /LitMap/bios/Edel__Wilbur.html   (659 words)

  
 kekionga's Listings Fort Wayne, Indiana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
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Kekionga Press has added Covert Experiments on Humans series to its
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 Journal Gazette | 10/24/2006 | Gun forces lockdown at Kekionga   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Kekionga Middle School was locked down for about 15 minutes Monday before police found an air soft gun in a student’s locker.
Two male students told a teacher they saw another student with a gun, and the principal notified the school resource officer.
Amanda Iacone of The Journal Gazette contributed to this report.
www.dfw.com /mld/journalgazette/15834976.htm   (368 words)

  
 Kekionga
known as Kekionga (The Blackberry Patch) was home of the Miami Nation and in the 1790s was
Turtle, defended their home of Kekionga from attacks by the U. Army led by Gen. Josiah
regained control of Kekionga, a rule that lasted for more than 30 years.
www.lanepl.org /Blount/jbplaces/documents/5F44AC6D383C4B6DC95C6F8EF2495728208D42E9.html   (681 words)

  
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 Kekionga Base Ball Grounds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
May 4, 1871: The first organized professional baseball game took place, where the Kekiongas beat the Forest Citys of Cleveland 2-0 before a crowd of 200.
In the early spring of 1871, with news of a baseball league forming, the denizens of Fort Wayne built a ballpark to hold their team.
The fire department turned out in force, but its services was not required, as the flames had gained too much headway.
www.projectballpark.org /history/na/kekionga.html   (300 words)

  
 Kekionga Trail | Indiana Hikes
It is smaller than two other flood-control projects in the Upper Wabash Valley, but the 870-acre lake and surrounding 7,400-acre property provide a variety of recreational opportunities.
The Kekionga Trail initially was established for hikers, but mountain bikers were granted access in 1995.
Hikers still have the right of way on the trail, but be alert for these faster trail users.
www.trails.com /tcatalog_trail.asp?TrailID=HGM055-016   (185 words)

  
 News-Sentinel | 10/24/2006 | Gun found at middle school   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Administrators lock down Kekionga after students reported pellet gun.
Fort Wayne Community Schools spokeswoman Debbie Morgan said several students alerted administrators of the gun’s presence.
She was not aware of any arrest, and a Fort Wayne Police spokesman could not be reached by this morning.
www.bradenton.com /mld/fortwayne/15836348.htm   (134 words)

  
 Miami - IBWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Shortly after the formation of the North American League, leaders from the Six Nations began talking with the Miami and other native nations in the northwest.
The various Miami chiefs met in Kekionga to form a more unified entity.
They chose to adopt a monarchical system, and the first King, ???, began a program of modernization.
ib.frath.net /w/Miami   (226 words)

  
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