Shawnee Indians

a powerful tribe of Algonquin stock. Of their early migrations no certain information is at hand. They are believed to have been an offshoot of the Delawares. They appear to have been buffeted by the Cherokees, Chickasaws, and Creeks on the south and by the Five Nations on the north. White settlers came into serious conflict with the Shawnees in the Ohio Valley. "Mad Anthony" Wayne won a victory over them in 1795. Chief Cornstalk was a Shawnee. The Indians encountered by Boone and his companions in the settlement of Kentucky were chiefly Shawnees. Tecumseh and his brother, the Prophet, were Shawnees. They organized an extended Indian uprising which was put down by General Harrison at Tippecanoe in 1811. It is believed that at this time the Shawnees numbered not less than 2,000 warriors. Scattered remnants joined the Tuscaroras in New York and the Teton Sioux in North Dakota. A small village is said to have followed a party of trappers west to the Tulare Valley, California. After various vicissitudes, however, the villages of the Shawnees were concentrated in Indian Territory, the great reservoir of broken Indian tribes. Men, women, and children, they now number less than 1,000.

See Wayne; Anthony; Tippecanoe; Tecumseh