Tutelo & Miami

[Michael Mccafferty]

Yeah, you know, my hunch is that the course that the Miami took in the
late 1600s from what is now Berlin, Wisconsin (a town they shared with
the Mascouten), to where Niles, Michigan, is now and then to the site
of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, was **just going home**. It seems
that's what war refugees do--if they can--they go home, after conflicts
are settled. The Illinois' going back home was brought to a halt by the
alienation that they and the Miami had created for each other after the
Central Algonquian diaspora ca. 1650. The Illinois got stuck in Illinois
and never made it back further east to the western Lake Erie watershed.
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, David Costa wrote:

> I readily admit, I don't know from archaeology. But Toledo, OH is still
> quite close to the historical location of the Miamis in northern Indiana,
> when you get right down to it. If you're saying the precontact homeland of
> the Tutelos is thought to be the 'upper Ohio', i.e., western Pennsylvania or
> thereabouts, then we *almost* have the M-I's and Tutelos next to each other,
> but not quite.
>
> Out of curiosity, what hard evidence IS there for locating the Tutelos
> before European contact?
>
> Dave