Miami Indians
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Along the north bank of the Mississinewa River and a few miles northwest of Marion, Indiana, Chief Meshingomesia of the Miami of Indiana owned an eight and a half-mile long reservation.
In 1860, The Miami Indian Village School was built upon the reservation alongside a Baptist church. Classes were held in this schoolhouse from 1860 to 1898 for Miami of Indiana children to learn how to assimilate with the American way of life. Otho Winger, who later would become the president (1911-1941) of Manchester University in North Manchester Indiana, taught at the school from 1895 to 1898. After 1898, the schoolhouse sat empty until the 1930s when it was relocated to a farm and used as a corn crib. The reservation was eventually forgotten by local Hoosiers for many years and the school house that was now a corn crib eventually was known only as a corn crib.
In 1860, The Miami Indian Village School was built upon the reservation alongside a Baptist church. Classes were held in this schoolhouse from 1860 to 1898 for Miami of Indiana children to learn how to assimilate with the American way of life. Otho Winger, who later would become the president (1911-1941) of Manchester University in North Manchester Indiana, taught at the school from 1895 to 1898. After 1898, the schoolhouse sat empty until the 1930s when it was relocated to a farm and used as a corn crib. The reservation was eventually forgotten by local Hoosiers for many years and the school house that was now a corn crib eventually was known only as a corn crib.