Person: Jean Baptiste Richardville, Myaamia Name: Pinšiwa

  • Nationality: Myaamia
    Family Group:
  • ID: 21
    Gender: Male
    Date of Birth: Year 1761
    Location of Birth: Kiihkayonki?
    Date of Death: Knw 08-13-1841
    Location of Death: Kiihkayonki
  • Biography/Notes:
    Jean Baptiste Richardville, known to his Myaamia relatives as Pinšiwa, was born in 1761, son of Tahkamwah (Marie Louise Richardville, nee Beaubien) and Joseph Richardville. His path to prominence was eased by his important family. Not only was Tahkamwah an influential akimaahkwia (female leader) of Kiihkayonki, but her brothers would rise in esteem over the course of Pinšiwa's life. His mother's brothers included the akima Pakaana and Mihšihkinaahkwa (Little Turtle).



Birth

Year 1761

Kiihkayonki?

1818 Treaty at St. Mary's

October 6, 1818

Articles of a treaty made and concluded, at St. Mary's, in the State of Ohio, between Jonathan Jennings, Lewis Cass, and Benjamin Parke, Commissioners of the United States, and the Miame nation of Indians. ARTICLE 1. The Miami nation of Indians cede to the United States the following tract of country: Beginning at the Wabash river, where the present Indian boundary line crosses the same, near the mouth of Raccoon creek; thence, up the Wabash river, to the reserve at its head, near Fort Wayne; ...


1826 Treaty at the Mississinewa

October 23, 1826

TREATY WITH THE MIAMI, 1826. Oct. 23, 1826. | 7 Stat., 300. | Proclamation, Jan. 24, 1827. Articles of a treaty made and concluded, near the mouth of the Mississinewa, upon the Wabash, in the State of Indiana, this twenty-third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, between Lewis Cass, James B. Ray, and John Tipton, Commissioners on the part of the United States, and the Chiefs and Warriors of the Miami Tribe of Indians. ARTICLE 1. The Miami Tr...


1830 Richardville to Chapman

May 21, 1830

"the East half of the Northernmost of two sections of land granted to" him in 1818 "the same being at what is called the twenty seven mile creek, suppose to contain three hundred and twenty acres be the same more or less."...


1834 Treaty at the Forks of the Wabash

October 23, 1834

TREATY WITH THE MIAMI, 1834. Oct. 23, 1834. | 7 Stat., 458. | 7 Stat., 463. | Proclamation, Dec. 22, 1837. Articles of a treaty between the United States and the Miami tribe of Indians, concluded at the Forks of the Wabash, in the State of Indiana, on the 23d day of October, 1834, by and between William Marshall, commissioner of the United States, and the chiefs and warriors of said tribe. ARTICLE 1. The Miami tribe of Indians agree to cede to the United States the following described t...


1838 Treaty at the Forks of the Wabash

November 6, 1838

TREATY WITH THE MIAMI, 1838. Nov. 6, 1838. | 7 Stat., 569. | Proclamation, Feb. 8, 1839. Articles of a treaty made and concluded at the Forks of the Wabash in the State of Indiana, between the United States of America, by her Commissioner Abel C. Pepper, and the Miami tribe of Indians on the sixth day of November in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty-eight. ARTICLE 1. The Miami tribe of Indians hereby cede to the United States all that tract of land lying south of the Waba...


1840 Treaty at the Forks of the Wabash

November 28, 1840

TREATY WITH THE MIAMI, 1840. Nov. 28, 1840. | 7 Stat., 582. | Proclamation, June 7, 1841. Articles of a treaty made and concluded at the Forks of the Wabash, in the State of Indiana, this twenty-eighth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty, between Samuel Milroy and Allen Hamilton, acting (unofficially) as commissioners on the part of the United States, and the chiefs, warriors and headmen of the Miami tribe of Indians. ARTICLE 1. THE Miami tribe o...


Jean Baptiste Richardville's Will

April 9, 1841

Will of John B. Richardville In the name of God, Amen! I, John B. Richardville of the county of Allen Indiana, Principal chief of the Miami Tribe of Indians, being of sound mind and Memory, knowing the uncertainty of life & desirous to dispose of my affairs while in a sound state of mind, doth make, publish and declare this instrument of writing as my last will and testament in manner following, to wit: First, I commit my soul to that God who gave it, my burial to be under the direction o...


Death

August 13, 1841

Kiihkayonki