A tribe of American Indians that speaks an Algonquian language (Shawnee). The Shawnee are commonly associated with land in southern Ohio, where many members of the tribe lived in the late 1700s and where the tribe may have been located prior to European contact. However, during much of the contact period the Shawnee were fragmented into small bands that were widely scattered in the present states of Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. Today, the Shawnee maintain three separate tribal headquarters in Oklahoma.

a member of the Algonquian people formerly living along the Tennessee river

the Algonquian language spoken by the Shawnee people

(shaw NEE) An American Indian tribe living in the Ohio and Tennessee River Valleys. At the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, they had migrated to Missouri. Bitterly opposed to white expansion, the Shawnee were frequently engaged in frontier skirmishes with United States forces. Under the leadership of the Shawnee warrior Tecumseh and his twin brother called The Prophet, the Shawnee became a force to be reckoned with. They allied themselves with the British in the War of 1812. Tecumseh was killed in battle in 1813 and both the British and the Shawnee were eventually defeated.

The Shawnee, or Shawano, are a people native to North America. They originally inhabited the areas of Ohio, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania.