The Miami Chiefs, Flatbelly and Wav?--wa-esse
The principal Miami chiefs were Flatbelly and Waw-wa-esse, often
contracted into Wawbee. The name of the latter chief was afterward
given to the old-time Nine Mile Lake and was transformed into the
more euphonious Wawasee. Wawbee 's village, in the middle '30s, was
situated near the southeast corner of the lake, about 2V2 miles south-
east of Milford. Flatbelly 's village was northeast of Leesburg, just
over the line in Noble County, but his reservation, as at present.
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extended well into Kosciusko County. Both of these chiefs were well
known to the first settlers of the county.
Flatbelly had thirty-six sections of land reserved to him in the
counties of Kosciusko and Noble by the treaty of 1S26. Nineteen of
these sections were in Turkey Creek and Tippecanoe townships, this
county. At the treaty concluded at the forks of the Wabash, iu Octo-
ber. 1834. the Miami Indians, of whom he was the head, ceded several
large tracts of land to the Government lying along the Wabash. Eel
and Salamonie rivers. This session included Flatbelly's thirty-six
sections. Seventy-two chiefs signed the articles of agreement: and
Flatbelly's name led aU the rest. Wabee was the fourth signatory
and the seventy-second was John B. Richardson of the St. Mary's
River.
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