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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 ]
Tecumseh (/ t ɪ ˈ k ʌ m s ə,-s i / tih-KUM-sə, -see; c. 1768 – October 5, 1813) was a Shawnee chief and warrior who promoted resistance to the expansion of the United States onto Native American lands. A persuasive orator, Tecumseh traveled widely, forming a Native American confederacy and promoting intertribal unity.
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.
The Shawnees of the "Mixed Band" became the Eastern Shawnee Tribe. [2] The Eastern Shawnee organized as a federally recognized tribe under the 1936 Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act. [2] In May 2019, the Eastern Shawnee ceremonial grounds flooded with three feet of water. Thirty families were evacuated, and "local roads stayed impassable for weeks."
Hathawekela (also spelled Oawikila, Thaawikila, Thawegila, Shawnee: θawikila, [1] French: Chalaqua) was 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 Pekowi. (All five division names have been spelled in a great ...
Giving the land in Johnson County to the Shawnee Tribe “would almost be an insult,” another tribe says.
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.