SHAWNEES Definition & Meaning

Shawnees

A tribe of Native Americans who inhabited Ohio , Indiana , and other parts of the Middle West during the early nineteenth century. The most famous Shawnee leader was Tecumseh , who joined with the British against the Americans during the War of 1812 .

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But leaders of the Shawnee Tribe and the Eastern Shawnees, both now based in Oklahoma, like the Delawares, said they hadn’t had any discussions about it.

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Nobody knew how the Shawnees’ chief was slain in the War of 1812, but Johnson’s campaign slogan was, “Rumpsey, Dumpsey. Johnson Killed Tecumseh.”

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During what became known as “Lord Dunmore’s War,” the Shawnees battled enemy forces that wanted to wipe them from the face of the earth.

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Without elaboration, Feldman writes: “He called the Shawnees a ‘perfidious people’ and considered all Indians to be savages.”

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The Shawnees or Shawanoes are an erratic tribe of Algonkin stock, supposed to have been one primarily with the Kickapoos.

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