Kekionga[1] aussi connu sous le nom de Kiskakon[2],[3] ou village de Pacanne[4], était la capitale des Miamis au confluent des rivières Saint-Joseph, Sainte-Marie et Maumee dans le nord-est de l'actuel État de l'Indiana.
- According to J. Dunn, Jr., the name "usually said to mean "blackberry patch, " or "blackberry bush, " this plant being considered an emblem of antiquity because it sprang up on the sites of old villages. This theory rests on the testimony of Barron, a longtime an old French trader on the Wabash. It is more probable that Kekioqa is a corruption or dialect form of Kiskakon, or Kikakon, which was the original name of the place." J. P. Dunn, INDIANA: A REDEMPTION FROM SLAVERY New York: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY, 1888, 48, Note 1.
- (en) Charles R. Poinsatte, Fort Wayne During the Canal Era 1828-1855, Indianapolis, Indiana Historical Bureau, , p. 1.
- Kiskakon, meaning "cut tail, " was the principal tribe of the Odawa nation. At a very early time, they had a village on the Maumee River. Poinsatte, pg 23, fn 1
- Cayton 1996, p. 86.