During the mid-18th century, the area was inhabited by a Native American tribe known as the Potawatomi, who had taken the place of the Miami and Sauk and Fox peoples.

* 1790 – Warriors of the Miami tribe under Chief Little Turtle defeat United States troops under General Josiah Harmar at the site of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the Northwest Indian War.

Little Turtle was selected as the war chief of the Atchatchakangouen division of the Miami tribe through his demonstration of military prowess in battle.

Although he became the war chief of the leading division of the tribe, Little Turtle was never the head chief of the Miami, which was a hereditary position.

Over time, other settlers continued to arrive to build homes on the Miami reservation, and by 1854, the U. S. Government purchased all but from the Miami tribe.

Having moved to the area that is now Miami County with the Wea tribe, he served as chief for several years before his death in 1848.

The new name was in honor of the predominant Native American tribe that settled the area, the Miami.

Before the arrival of European-American settlers during the 1830s, the northeastern portion of the future Blackford County was briefly the site of an Indian reservation for Chief Francois Godfroy of the Miami tribe.

The Miami Tribe of Oklahoma is the only federally recognized tribe of Miami Indians in the United States.

Another unrecognized tribe is the Miami Nation of Indiana.

) Godfroy ’ s father was French, and his mother was from the Miami tribe.

Tribes that have lived in the area include the Miami tribe, Kickapoo, Piankeshaw and Wea.

Inhabited for thousands of years by different cultures of indigenous peoples, in historic times, native groups were the Shawnee, Wabash, Miami tribe, among those in the Wabash confederacy.

De Vincennes, who had lived with his father among the Miami tribe, was able to convince the Piankeshaw to establish a village at his trading post.

The site was in Miami tribe territory, and their Chief Little Turtle warned the group not to settle there.

* Francis La Fontaine ( 1810-1847 ), chief of the Miami tribe

Category: Miami tribe

Chief Richardville, the principal chief of the Miami from 1812 until his death in 1841, signed several treaties with the United States government as it negotiated with the Miami tribe for its eventual removal as a recognized nation.

Category: Miami tribe

The Miami were a powerful tribe and brought together a confederacy of their neighboring allies, including the Pottawatomie and the Illinois tribe who inhabited modern Michigan and Illinois.

Shayne noted idly that it carried Miami Beach license plates as he approached, and then saw the flare of a match in the front seat as they passed, indicating that it was occupied.

On this side of the Bay, Miami Beach cops had no more legal rights than any ordinary citizen, and Shayne's pistol permit was just as good as theirs.

In 1933, Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak was fatally wounded in Miami, Florida during a failed assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The only successful drop kick in the NFL since the 1941 NFL Championship game was by Doug Flutie, the backup quarterback of the New England Patriots, against the Miami Dolphins on January 1, 2006, for an extra point after a touchdown.

They played home games from their inaugural season to the 2011 season at Sun Life Stadium, which they shared with the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League ( NFL ) and which was also called Joe Robbie Stadium, Pro Player Park, Pro Player Stadium, Dolphin Stadium, Dolphins Stadium, and Land Shark Stadium during their tenancy.

Former Weismann performers at the reunion include Max and Stella Deems, who lost their radio jobs and became store owners in Miami ; Solange La Fitte, a coquette, who is still vibrant three decades later ; Hattie Walker, who has outlived five younger husbands ; Vincent and Vanessa, former dancers who now own an Arthur Murray franchise ; Heidi Schiller, for whom Franz Lehár once wrote a waltz ( or was it Oscar Straus?

He was the founding dean of the University of Miami School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences in 1964, and held several government positions, including deputy assistant administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, and chief scientist for the Department of Transportation.

In December 1965, The New York Times reported on a conference Singer hosted in Miami Beach during which five groups of scientists, working independently, presented research identifying what they believed was the remains of a primordial flash that occurred when the universe was born.

In 2005, a similar ad campaign was launched by Sony and executed by TATS CRU in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Miami to market its handheld PSP gaming system.

Their project attracted a great deal of attention, including from the Miami Herald and the final report was published in a book written by the boys called Big Sky, Little Bullet.

Guyana Airways Corporation was therefore obliged to fill the breach by commencing jet operations to Miami, New York and Toronto.

He sustained minor injuries and was transported to Ryder Trauma Center in Miami, Florida.

It was initially popularized circa 1984 in discothèques catering to gay and mixed, primarily African-American and Latino audiences in Chicago, but beginning in 1985, fanned out to other major cities such as Detroit, Toronto, New York City, Boston, Montreal, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Manchester, Miami, London, and Paris.

Mayol ’ s fascination with dolphins started in 1955 when he was working as a commercial diver at an aquarium in Miami, Florida.

Reno was born in Miami, Florida to Henry Olaf Reno ( original surname Rasmussen ), an emigrant from Denmark, who, for 43 years was a police reporter for the Miami Herald.

In addition to her official duties, she worked actively in many civic organizations including the Miami Coalition for a Safe and Drug Free Community and the Beacon Council, which was formed to address Miami-Dade's economic development.

In 1984 Frank Fuster, the owner of the Country Walk Babysitting Service, in a suburb of Miami, Florida, was found guilty of 14 counts of abuse.

Dahmer later told police he could not go home to face his father, so he headed to Miami Beach, Florida, because he was " tired of the cold.

It was shot on location at the actual Super Bowl X in January 1976 in Miami, with the use of a real Goodyear Blimp.

" In another interview in Miami with AventuraUSA. com, Voight said he first met Giuliani " years ago " at a movie premiere in New York City and the main reason for his support was Giuliani's public poise in the wake of the September 11 attacks.

The more familiar triangular boundary in most written works has as its points somewhere on the Atlantic coast of Miami ; San Juan, Puerto Rico ; and the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda, with most of the accidents concentrated along the southern boundary around the Bahamas and the Florida Straits.

Their two championships equal the tally of the Toronto Blue Jays and Miami Marlins for the most titles among expansion teams.

This was the 7th Super Bowl to be played in Miami, at the time tying both New Orleans, Louisiana and the Greater Los Angeles area for hosting the Super Bowl the most times.

They allowed 210 points and also scored an NFL best 456 points, becoming the first team since the 1972 Miami Dolphins to score the most points in the league and allow the fewest.

Addressing this contingency, the Ohio delegates included a provision in the draft Ohio constitution that if the trapper's report about Lake Michigan's position were in fact correct, the state boundary line would be angled slightly northeast so as to intersect Lake Erie at the " most northerly cape of the Miami Bay.

* April 22 – In a predawn raid, federal agents seize 6-year old Elián González from his relatives ' home in Miami, Florida and fly him to his Cuban father in Washington, DC, ending one of the most publicized custody battles in U. S. history.

Some of the most popular TV series which premiered during the 1980s or carried over from the 1970s include: Alf, Airwolf, The A-Team, Dynasty, Dallas, Knight Rider, MacGyver, Magnum, P. I., Miami Vice, Diff ' rent Strokes, The Jeffersons, The Facts of Life, The Cosby Show, Murder, She Wrote, 21 Jump Street, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Night Court, Who's the Boss ?, Family Matters, Quantum Leap, Saved by the Bell, Roseanne, Full House, The Golden Girls, Cheers, Growing Pains, Family Ties, Seinfeld, The Simpsons and Married ... with Children.

Miami () or ) is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the seventh-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2, 500, 625.

The 42nd largest city proper in the United States, with a population of 408, 568, it is the principal, central, and most populous city of the Miami metropolitan area, and the most populous metropolis in the Southeastern United States.

The city consists of of coastline with some of the most popular surf breaks in Australia and the world including, South Stradbroke Island, The Spit, Main Beach, Surfers Paradise, Broadbeach, Mermaid Beach, Nobby Beach, Miami, Burleigh Beach, Burleigh Heads, Tallebudgera Beach, Palm Beach, Currumbin Beach, Tugun, Bilinga, Kirra, Coolangatta, Greenmount, Rainbow Bay, Snapper Rocks and Froggies Beach.

The league's most severe impact was on the Miami Dolphins, who had just won consecutive Super Bowls before the WFL's snagging of three of their star players.

However, the fortunes of the Miami Heat would change dramatically in the summer of 1995 ; the off-season of that year became one of the most poignant in the history of the franchise.

Along with their individual scoring dominance, Mourning and Hardaway formed one of the most dangerous tandems in the league at the time, bringing a new excitement to the Miami community and turning the Heat into perennial contenders.

The highway connects most of the major cities of the east coast, including Miami, Washington, D. C., and New York City passing from the Southeastern United States to New England.

Little Turtle, or Mishikinakwa ( in Miami-Illinois ) ( c. 1747 – July 14, 1812 ), was a chief of the Miami people, and one of the most famous Native American military leaders of his time.

Softcore erotica programming typically does not air within the block and adult films have been absent from the main Showtime channel since the mid-2000s ( though a limited amount of original erotica series have resurfaced on the main channel in 2010 such as Beach Heat: Miami, after having been absent for most of the previous decade ), although the network's multiplex channels Showtime 2 and Showcase do occasionally feature adult films on their overnight schedules.

In 1925, Miami newspapers published editions weighing over, most of it in real estate advertising.

By the late 18th century, many Miami had moved further south ; most of Indiana north of the Wabash was then occupied by the Potawatomi people.

The Zamoras resided for most of his life in Hialeah, Florida, a suburb of Miami.

He left the Parsons School of Design to attend the University of Miami, which has one of the nation's most avant garde theater departments.

The main road through Golden Beach is Collins Avenue, also known as State Road A1A and Beachfront Avenue ; Golden Beach is one of the most notorious speed traps in the Miami area-motorists have been pulled over not only for speeding, but for minor equipment issues at night, which may become fishing expeditions ( seat belts, etc .).

The original Miami Lakes development, east of the Palmetto Expressway, was master planned by Lester Collins with curving tree-shaded roadways and numerous curving lakes which are unusual compared to most surrounding areas with treeless streets on a square grid and rectangular lakes.