21 Facts About Shawnee

Shawnee are an Algonquian-speaking indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands.

Shawnee has been written as Shaawanwaki, Sa·wano·ki, Shaawanowi lenaweeki, and Shawano.

Some scholars believe that the Shawnee are descendants of the people of the precontact Fort Ancient culture of the Ohio region, although this is not universally accepted.

Shawnee considered the Lenape of the East Coast mid-Atlantic region, who were Algonquian speaking, to be their "grandfathers".

The Shawnee were "driven from Kentucky in the 1670s by the Iroquois of Pennsylvania and New York, who claimed the Ohio valley as hunting ground to supply its fur trade.

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The colonists Batts and Fallam in 1671 reported that the Shawnee were contesting control of the Shenandoah Valley with the Haudenosaunee Confederacy in that year, and were losing.

The Savannah River Shawnee were known to the Carolina English as "Savannah Indians".

Around the same time, other Shawnee groups migrated to Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and other regions south and east of the Ohio country.

The Shawnee became known for their widespread settlements, extending from Pennsylvania to Illinois and to Georgia.

Unable to protect themselves, in 1745 some 400 Shawnee migrated from Pennsylvania to Ohio, Kentucky, Alabama and Illinois, hoping to escape the traders' influence.

Several other Shawnee villages were located in the northern Shenandoah Valley: at Moorefield, West Virginia, on the North River; and on the Potomac at Cumberland, Maryland.

The Shawnee did not agree to this treaty: it was negotiated between British officials and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, who claimed sovereignty over the land.

The Shawnee faced the British colony of Virginia with only a few Mingo allies.

Shawnee began to associate these teachings with the idea of a pan-tribal alliance.

Shawnee said that the people would see a sign proving that the Great Spirit had sent him.

The earthquake and its aftershocks helped the Tecumseh resistance movement as the Muscogee and other Native American tribes believed it was a sign that the Shawnee must be supported and that Tecumseh had prophesied such an event and sign.

In 1817, the Ohio Shawnee had signed the Treaty of Fort Meigs, ceding their remaining lands in exchange for three reservations in Wapaughkonetta, Hog Creek, and Lewistown, Ohio.

Shawnee had been raised in the household of Lewis Cass and had been a leading interpreter for the Shawnee.

About 200 of the Ohio Shawnee followed the prophet Tenskwatawa and had joined their Kansas brothers and sisters here in 1826.

Shawnee was a Freemason and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Harvey suggested that the Shawnee relied on this system of descent because a woman's sons would always be considered legitimate.