Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1894 — The Last of the Miamis. [ARTICLE]

The Last of the Miamis.

The only surviving son of the last of the chiefs of the famous Miami tribe of Indians, James R. Godfrie by name, died the other day on the reservation of 1.900 acres of land given him by the government in 1819, and on which he lived and farmed with his children and grandchildren for the past sixty years. His father was Frances, a chief who succeeded Little Turtle in command of the Indian forces in the Maumee and Wabash Valleys. His mother was also the daughter of a chief, John Baptiste Richardsville. The deceased left a large lamily, and seventy-two of his descendants are now occupying the reservation, which is a valuable tract of land four mi es south of Fort Wayne, Ind. The youngest is George, a prominent citizen of Fort Wayne, who is one of the few Indians who ever joined a secret society, and is the highest in Masonry of any Indian in the world, having taken every degree in both rites, excepting the thirty-third, and is anxious to take that.