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The Shawnee (/ ʃɔːˈni / 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] In the 17th century, they dispersed through Ohio, Illinois, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. [4]
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] In the late 18th century, European American encroachment crowded Shawnee lands in the East, and one band migrated to Missouri — eventually becoming the Absentee ...
When the British American colonies began expanding into the Ohio Country, Cornstalk played a major part in defense of the Shawnee homeland. He was the primary Shawnee war chief in Lord Dunmore's War (1774), leading Shawnees and other Native warriors against colonists in the Battle of Point Pleasant. After suffering defeat in that battle, he ...
Before landing in the Argentine neighborhood of KCK, he lead a spiritual movement that united different tribes against displacement and assimilation.
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.
There are 3,787 enrolled tribal members, and 904 of them living within the state of Oklahoma. Some live nearby in Missouri, where the tribe has a Cultural Preservation Center at Seneca, Missouri, and a community in western Missouri. Glenna J. Wallace is the elected Chief, since 2006, and is currently serving a four-year term. She is the tribe's ...
Tecumseh's confederacy. Tecumseh's confederacy was a confederation of Native Americans in the Great Lakes region of North America which formed during the early 19th century around the teaching of Shawnee leader Tenskwatawa. [2] The confederation grew over several years and came to include several thousand Native American warriors.
November 1, 2024 at 10:33 AM. Nov. 1—NORWALK — On Thursday night in the Division III Regional Semifinal at Norwalk High School, Shawnee met its match. The hard-hitting Indians ran into Toledo ...