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Chalahgawtha (or, more commonly in English, Chillicothe(/ ˌ tʃ ɪ l ɪ ˈ k ɒ θ i / CHIL-ih-KOTH-ee) [1] was the name of one of the five divisions (or bands) of the Shawnee, a Native American people, during the 18th century.
On June 7, 2024, on the site of the Shawnee town "Old Chillicothe" along U.S. 68 in Xenia Township, Greene County, Ohio, was opened the Great Council State Park with the help of the three federally recognized Shawnee tribes: the Shawnee Tribe, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma. [56]
The United Remnant Band of the Shawnee Nation, also called the Shawnee Nation, United Remnant Band (URB), is an organization that self-identifies as a Native American tribe in Ohio. Its members identify as descendants of Shawnee people. In 2016, the organization incorporated as a church. [1]
Pekowi was the name of one of the five divisions (or bands) of the Shawnee, a Native American people, during the 18th century. The other four divisions were the Chalahgawtha, Mekoche, Kispoko, and Hathawekela. Together these divisions formed the loose confederacy that was the Shawnee tribe.
Settlers were granted 130,000 acres (530 km 2) of Shawnee land, while 70,000 acres (280 km 2) remained to for the tribe, of which 20,000 acres (81 km 2) were granted to the Absentee Shawnee. [ 6 ] In 1861 Kansas became a state, and the White people of Kansas demanded that all Indian tribes must be removed from the state. [ 6 ]
Tecumseh was born in what is now Ohio at a time when the far-flung Shawnees were reuniting in their Ohio Country homeland. During his childhood, the Shawnees lost territory to the expanding American colonies in a series of border conflicts.
British officials successfully prevented other Indians from joining the war, leaving Cornstalk with only about 300 Shawnee, Mingo, Delaware, and Wyandot warriors to oppose Dunmore's 2,300 men. [13] Dunmore launched a two-prong invasion of the Ohio Country, with him leading one wing, Colonel Andrew Lewis in command of the other.
As a result, the Chillicothe Shawnee moved their town on the Scioto River further west to the Little Miami River, near what is now Xenia, Ohio. Encouraged and supplied by British officials in Detroit, Blackfish and others launched raids against American settlers in Kentucky, hoping to drive them out of the region.