Ouiatenon
Waayaahtanonki | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Ouiatenon | |
| Coordinates: 40°24′3″N 86°57′36″W / 40.40083°N 86.96000°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Indiana |
| County | Tippecanoe |
| Settled | c. 1680s |
| Destroyed | 1 June 1791 |
| Elevation | 600 ft (200 m) |
| Highest elevation | 600 ft (200 m) |
| Lowest elevation | 500 ft (200 m) |
Ouiatenon (Miami-Illinois: waayaahtanonki) was a dwelling place of members of the Wea tribe of Native Americans. The name Ouiatenon, also variously given as Ouiatanon, Oujatanon, Ouiatano or other similar forms, is a French rendering of a term from the Wea dialect of the Miami-Illinois language which means "place of the people of the whirlpool", an ethnonym for the Wea. Ouiatenon can be said to refer generally to any settlement of Wea or to their tribal lands as a whole,[2] though the name is most frequently used to refer to a group of extinct settlements situated together along the Wabash River in what is now western Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
- ^ "Topographic map for Ouiatenon vicinity". The National Map. U.S. Geological Survey. 1 July 1987. Retrieved 4 December 2008.
- ^ "Indiana Historical Bureau: Wea Tribe at Terre Haute ("Annotated Text")". Retrieved 2008-12-04.