Wea Indian Gravesite #1
Ottawa County, Oklahoma, USA – *No GPS coordinates
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Add PhotosThe Wea Indian tribe was originally from Indiana and later moved to Oklahoma where they confederated with the Peoria Indian Tribe. The Wea were a Miami-Illinois-speaking Native American tribe originally located in western Indiana, closely related to the Miami Tribe. The name Wea is used today as the a shortened version of their numerous recorded names. The Wea name for themselves (autonym) in their own language is waayaahtanwa, derived from waayaahtanonki, 'place of the whirlpool', their name where they were first recorded being seen and is where they were living at that time. The different spellings of their name is numerous, as they were made by different settlers from different language and educational backgrounds. One French version is Ouiatenon; another Ouiateno; there were Wea villages, whose sites are now known as Lafayette and Terre Haute, Indiana, respectively. In 2004 the Indiana Historical Bureau installed a marker commemorating the Wea Village in Terre Haute and its living descendants. The Wea spoke a dialect of Miami, the same language as the Miami Tribe, both from the Algonquian languages.
Identified by Tyner in the canvass and survey from the American Indian Institute; "Our People And Where They Rest," (OPAWTR) James W. Tyner and Alice Tyner Timmons, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. 1973 Vol. 8, p. 86, under "Wea Indian Graves. (Library of Congress No. QE99-C5-T97, et al.) Their information is given here as a historical reference and is presented "as is." Their book, like many such cemetery listing compilations, may contain errors. As with any genealogy information, this is a "source" and should be considered as such. It is up to the end-user to verify the accuracy. Most of the volumes and maps are available for online viewing.
The Wea Indian tribe was originally from Indiana and later moved to Oklahoma where they confederated with the Peoria Indian Tribe. The Wea were a Miami-Illinois-speaking Native American tribe originally located in western Indiana, closely related to the Miami Tribe. The name Wea is used today as the a shortened version of their numerous recorded names. The Wea name for themselves (autonym) in their own language is waayaahtanwa, derived from waayaahtanonki, 'place of the whirlpool', their name where they were first recorded being seen and is where they were living at that time. The different spellings of their name is numerous, as they were made by different settlers from different language and educational backgrounds. One French version is Ouiatenon; another Ouiateno; there were Wea villages, whose sites are now known as Lafayette and Terre Haute, Indiana, respectively. In 2004 the Indiana Historical Bureau installed a marker commemorating the Wea Village in Terre Haute and its living descendants. The Wea spoke a dialect of Miami, the same language as the Miami Tribe, both from the Algonquian languages.
Identified by Tyner in the canvass and survey from the American Indian Institute; "Our People And Where They Rest," (OPAWTR) James W. Tyner and Alice Tyner Timmons, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. 1973 Vol. 8, p. 86, under "Wea Indian Graves. (Library of Congress No. QE99-C5-T97, et al.) Their information is given here as a historical reference and is presented "as is." Their book, like many such cemetery listing compilations, may contain errors. As with any genealogy information, this is a "source" and should be considered as such. It is up to the end-user to verify the accuracy. Most of the volumes and maps are available for online viewing.
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- Added: 20 Dec 2015
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2598585
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