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The Wea were a Native American tribe of Indiana , sometimes considered a subdivision of the Miami Tribe . The name 'Wea' is a shortened version of their name for themselves in their own language, ''waayaahtanwa'', which is derived from ''waayaahtanonki'', 'place of the whirlpool', their name for their traditional homeland. This appears in the old French records as the town name ''Ouiatenon'', located near the site of present-day Lafayette, Indiana. Driven to the West by increased Euro-American settlement and Indian Removal , they were confederated with the Kaskaskia s, Peoria s, and Piankeshaw s to form the Confederated Peoria Tribe of first Kansas and now Oklahoma . The tribes blended their cultural traditions and freely accepted whites and blacks into their community. The Wea spoke a dialect of the Miami-Illinois language, the same language as the Miami and the Peoria . The bloodline of the last known chief of the Wea prior to relocation continues in the state-recognized tribe of Wea in Indiana. The chief was Jacco Godfrey. EXTERNAL LINKS |