Back وي (قبيلة) Arabic Wea (Volk) German Wea Spanish Weas French Wea Croatian Веа (племя) Russian Wea Serbo-Croatian Wea SIMPLE
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 Go-to-ków-páh-ah, He who Stands by Himself, a Wea warrior, oil portrait by George Catlin, 1830, collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| extinct as a tribe | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| United States (Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, descendants in Oklahoma) | |
| Languages | |
| Miami–Illinois | |
| Religion | |
| Traditional tribal religion | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Miami, Peoria, Kaskaskia |
The Wea were a Miami–Illinois-speaking Native American tribe originally located in western Indiana. Historically, they were described as either being closely related to the Miami tribe or a sub-tribe of Miami.[1]
Today, the descendants of the Wea, along with the Kaskaskia, Piankeshaw, and Peoria, are enrolled in the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, a federally recognized tribe in Oklahoma.[2][3]
- ^ Callendar, "Miami," 681
- ^ House, Office of the Law Revision Counsel. United States Code 2006, Volume 15. §1224, page 986
- ^ "Peoria Tribe". Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma. Retrieved 25 January 2020.