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On June 7, 2024, on the site of the Shawnee town "Old Chillicothe" along U.S. 68 in Xenia Township, Greene County, Ohio, was opened the Great Council State Park with the help of the three federally recognized Shawnee tribes: the Shawnee Tribe, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma. [56]
Settlers were granted 130,000 acres (530 km 2) of Shawnee land, while 70,000 acres (280 km 2) remained to for the tribe, of which 20,000 acres (81 km 2) were granted to the Absentee Shawnee. [ 6 ] In 1861 Kansas became a state, and the White people of Kansas demanded that all Indian tribes must be removed from the state. [ 6 ]
Between 1815 and 1819, the Shawnee population in southeastern Missouri plummeted from 1,200 to only 400. Only ten years after the signing of the Treaty of St. Louis the encroachment of white settlers had compelled these tribes to sell their Spanish grant and leave the State for a home farther west. [2] Shawnee Tribe "The Shawnee in History".
The Shawnee and Delaware first immigrated into the area, on request by the Spanish authorities, in 1787, to act as a buffer between the French settlements to the north and the Osage Indians to the south. The French settlers called their village Village Sauvage (French: savage or wild village). The Shawnee and Delaware were forced to give up ...
Also in 1793, Baron Carondelet granted land near Cape Girardeau to the Black Bob Band of the Hathawekela Shawnee, who had migrated from across the Mississippi River. The Band became known as the Cape Girardeau Shawnee. They successfully resisted removal to Indian Territory with the rest of the Shawnee tribe until 1833. [7] [8] [9]
Shawnee Township is a township in Henry County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. [1] The township is named after the Shawnee tribe of Native Americans. [2]
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Shawnee Township is one of ten townships in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. As of the 2000 census , its population was 3,460. Shawnee Township was established in 1848, and named after the Shawnee Indians .