Shawnees

Cultural  

1. 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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Example Sentences

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.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 11, 2024

Early inhabitants had been Shawnees, Miamis, Wyandots, and numerous smaller tribes, but retreating bands of Delawares and others had joined them from the East.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

At the same time, Senecas, Shawnees, and Delawares laid siege to Fort Pitt.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

The United States acquired the territory that became downtown Chicago from Wyandots, Delawares, Shawnees, and others in the same 1795 treaty that gave the U.S. most of Ohio.

From Slate • Jul. 6, 2014

Their experience in Dunmore’s War led the Shawnees to ally with the British against the separatists in 1777.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz