Workers' Educational Association a British organization that arranges classes for adults, especially adults who started working at a young age and may not have had a good education
[n] A tribe of American Indians that spoke an Algonquian language (Miami-Illinois) In the 1670s, the Wea were one of six constituent tribes of the Miami nation living in Southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois The Wea became independent of the Miami in the early 1700s and resided in eastern Illinois and central Indiana In the 1800s, the Piankashaw and Wea tribes merged with the remnants of the Illinois nation to form a group that later became the Peoria Tribe of Oklahoma