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Definition of Shawnees

Shawnees
Shawnees Shaw`nees", n. pl.; sing. Shawnee. (Ethnol.) A tribe of North American Indians who occupied Western New York and part of Ohio, but were driven away and widely dispersed by the Iroquois.
Shawnee
Shawnees Shaw`nees", n. pl.; sing. Shawnee. (Ethnol.) A tribe of North American Indians who occupied Western New York and part of Ohio, but were driven away and widely dispersed by the Iroquois.

Meaning of Shawnees from wikipedia

- significant leader and Shawnee chief: 500  Kekewepelethy ("Captain Johnny", d. c. 1808), prin****l civil chief of the Shawnees in the Ohio Country during...
- 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...
- Shawnee (Meskwaki: Shânîheki) is a city in and the county seat of Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, United States. The po****tion was 29,857 in 2010, a 4...
- would surrender willingly to the Shawnees the following spring. Boone was improvising, saying anything to keep the Shawnees from attacking Boonesborough....
- Shawnees in 1778 and adopted into the tribe, but he resigned and continued to help protect the Kentucky settlements. He also left due to the Shawnee Indians...
- begun. Cornstalk was not the prin****l chief of the Shawnees, as is sometimes thought. Shawnees lived in autonomous towns with no central government...
- Some Shawnees are also members of the Native American Church peyote ceremonies, with most attending in the winter outside of the traditional Shawnee ceremonial...
- Shawnee Run is a stream in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Shawnee Run was named after the Shawnee Indians. List of rivers of West Virginia U.S. Geological...
- begin farming, which among Shawnees had been considered women's work. In 1808, Black Hoof and Lewis were the only Shawnees to sign the Treaty of Brownstown...
- secured grants, immigrants began pouring into the region. Natives (primarily Shawnees and Cherokees) who used present-day Kentucky as their hunting grounds had...