Miami Tribe of Oklahoma

Richardville House on Miami Tribe Register by Sherry Slater of the Journal Gazette.

The Miami Tribe of Oklahoma has commemorated the 200th anniversary of the 1826 Treaty of Mississinnawas by adding the Chief Richardville House to its National Register of Historic Places.

The word unique, which literally means one of a kind, is overused, but the Chief Richardville House earns the adjective.

The Greek Revival and Federal Style Home at 5705 Bluffton Road, Fort Wayne, is the only existing treaty house in the United States.

Richardville added $1,600 of his own money to build a home.

Completed in 1827, the Chief Richardville House later became the home of Richardville's descendants for generations, according to MiamiNation.com.

The former home of Chief Jean-Baptiste Richardville has become only the fifth property added to the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma National Register of Historic Places.

The decision, announced Monday, was accompanied by a $2,500 donation toward the property's preservation.

The only thing worth noting here is that this is giving more work to the Social Security Administration, even though their workforce has been cut by the Trump administration.

Moving on, another law with a title that is long and not really as fun as the Boondoggle one is S.550, which is an attempt to resolve a land dispute between the federal government and the Miami tribe of Oklahoma that dates back more than two hundred years to 1805.

Now, the tribe alleges that the United States sold millions of acres of its land in Illinois in the 1820s without permission and compensation, which I'm sure they did, and then forcibly relocated the tribe from Illinois to Kansas, from Kansas to Oklahoma over the next forty years.

The tribe then sued the government in the year 2000, and so this law is designed to move that case forward and finally end it.

Yeah.

Yes, the, uh, you know, the, the Miami tribe of Oklahoma has always had a good relationship with Miami University in Ohio, and so they, they've always had a very good, strong presence there.

The Shawnee tribes o-of Eastern Oklahoma and the Shawnee tribe led by Ben Barnes, they have both become quite active in working with Ohioans and Na- the National Park Service in preserving these Hopewell sites because they see an ancestral connection to them.

You know, as I said, f- thirty, forty years ago, they were-- their, their role with these earthworks were really g-grossly just not recognized.

Different tr...

It's a little bit, you know, different tribe- tribal nations as you, I'm sure you know, have different traditions.

And when you're talking about a culture that's 2,000 years before the sh- pr- present day Shawnee or the present da- day Wyandot or Miami, it's hard to know to what extent those kinds of traditions really were handed down over all those generations.

But of course, the N- Native American tribes have a number of, uh, you know, lunar calendars that they rely upon.