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The Shawnee (/ ʃ ɔː ˈ n i / shaw-NEE) are a Native American people of the Northeastern Woodlands.Their language, Shawnee, is an Algonquian language. Their precontact homeland was likely centered in southern Ohio. [2]
Shawnee woman's blouse with silver medallions, circa 19th century, Indian Territory , collection of the Peabody Museum, Harvard The Shawnee Tribe is an Eastern Woodland tribe . They originally came from Ohio and Pennsylvania, and were the last of the Shawnee to leave their traditional homelands there. [ 6 ]
The Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma (or Absentee Shawnee [2]) is one of three federally recognized tribes of Shawnee people. [3] Historically residing in what became organized as the upper part of the Eastern United States, the original Shawnee lived in the large territory now made up of Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and neighboring states.
Giving the land in Johnson County to the Shawnee Tribe “would almost be an insult,” another tribe says.
Blue Jacket, or Weyapiersenwah (c. 1743 – 1810), was a war chief of the Shawnee people, known for his militant defense of Shawnee lands in the Ohio Country.Perhaps the preeminent American Indian leader in the Northwest Indian War, in which a pantribal confederacy fought several battles with the nascent United States, he was an important predecessor of the famous Shawnee leader Tecumseh.
The Shawnee Tribe has been investigating the Shawnee Indian Manual Labor school in Fairway, Kansas for over a year. Now, Barnes' search for answers about how many Shawnee children attended the ...
Mary Draper Ingles (1732 – February 1815), also known in records as Mary Inglis or Mary English, was an American pioneer and early settler of western Virginia.In the summer of 1755, she and her two young sons were among several captives taken by Shawnee after the Draper's Meadow Massacre during the French and Indian War.
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