The Eel River were a historic Native American tribe from Indiana.
[1] At the time of European contact in the mid-18th century, the tribe lived the northern Eel River, a tributary of the Wabash River in what is now Cass County, Indiana.
[2] After fighting the Americans in the 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers, they signed the 1795 Treaty of Greenville.
[1] Michael Glen Floyd formed the Eel River Tribe of Indiana, an unrecognized organization.
[4] In 2021, Floyd filed the lawsuit Michael Glen Floyd v. State of Indiana, et al., which also listed State of New Mexico, Miami Nation of Indiana, Eiteljorg Museum, Jack Floyd Jr., and others as defendants, in the U.S. District Court, District on Columbia; however, his case was dismissed.