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The Shawnee (/ ʃ ɔː ˈ n i / shaw-NEE) are a Native American people of the Northeastern Woodlands.Their language, Shawnee, is an Algonquian language. Their precontact homeland was likely centered in southern Ohio. [2]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 February 2025. Shawnee Native American military leader For other uses, see Tecumseh (disambiguation). Tecumseh Painting of Tecumseh based on an 1808 sketch Born c. 1768 Likely near present-day Chillicothe, Ohio, U.S. Died October 5, 1813 (aged c. 45) Moraviantown, Upper Canada Cause of death Killed in ...
The Shawnee Tribe is a federally recognized Native American tribe in Oklahoma. Formerly known as the Loyal Shawnee , they are one of three federally recognized Shawnee tribes. The others are the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma and the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma .
With that in mind, we gathered this list of 20 famous Native Americans, some of whom may surprise you. ... Wray is said to have endured racial discrimination growing up due to his Shawnee heritage.
Before landing in the Argentine neighborhood of KCK, he lead a spiritual movement that united different tribes against displacement and assimilation.
Blue Jacket, or Weyapiersenwah (c. 1743 – 1810), was a war chief of the Shawnee people, known for his militant defense of Shawnee lands in the Ohio Country.Perhaps the preeminent American Indian leader in the Northwest Indian War, in which a pantribal confederacy fought several battles with the nascent United States, he was an important predecessor of the famous Shawnee leader Tecumseh.
Tenskwatawa (/ ˌ t ə n s k w ɒ t ɒ w eɪ /; also called Tenskatawa, Tenskwatawah, Tensquatawa or Lalawethika) (January 1775 – November 1836) was a Native American religious and political leader of the Shawnee tribe, known as the Prophet or the Shawnee Prophet.
Because of its prominence in the American Revolutionary War, Old Chillicothe (1774–1780) was the most famous of the Shawnee Chillicothe villages in American history. It is often referred to in historical writing as "Old Chillicothe", in order to distinguish it from the modern Ohio city of Chillicothe. Settlement of the village began in 1774.