Miami
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a member of an Algonquian-speaking North American Indian tribe, formerly located in northern Indiana and Illinois, southern Michigan, and possibly Wisconsin, now living primarily in Oklahoma.
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their dialect of the Illinois language.
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a city in SE Florida: seaside resort.
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Also called Great Miami. a river in W Ohio, flowing S into the Ohio River. 160 miles (260 km) long.
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a city in NE Oklahoma.
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Famed for its resort hotels.
Home of the largest Cuban population outside Cuba, many of them exiles from the regime of Fidel Castro.
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Origin of Miami
First recorded in 1690–1700; from French, from Illinois miamioua, myaamiwa “person from downstream”
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Since her breakout semi-final performance at the Miami Open last year, Eala has re-ignited interest in tennis in the Philippines, a country obsessed with the three B's - basketball, boxing and beauty queens.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
On Thursday, federal marshals in Miami took the Tates into custody.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
In the late 2000s, she discovered how lucrative the business could be when she bought a truck to start selling tacos in Miami.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Ryan, the Miami University student, initially went into college thinking she would graduate with a pre-med degree.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
We’re not all here because Tío Fran and his family are in Miami, and Tía Mimí has a boyfriend, who’s taken her over to meet his parents.
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
It’s an ability the teams they claim to be chasing, the Kansas Cities and Buffaloes and Miamis of the world, can do seemingly at will, not just occasionally.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 9, 2023
Early inhabitants had been Shawnees, Miamis, Wyandots, and numerous smaller tribes, but retreating bands of Delawares and others had joined them from the East.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
There will be dozens of Miamis and thousands of Tangiers.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2016
“It used to be the San Franciscos, the Miamis, New York,” said John Tanzella, the president and chief executive of the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2014
Wayne’s units entered what is now northwestern Ohio and established a base they called Fort Defiance in the heart of an Indigenous alliance that included Delawares, Shawnees, Miamis, and Wyandots.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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