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Shawnee

DEFINITIONS OF: Shawnee

1

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

Examples:
Pontiac
famous chief of the Ottawa who led an unsuccessful rebellion against the British (1715-1769)
Tecumseh
a famous chief of the Shawnee who tried to unite Indian tribes against the increasing white settlement (1768-1813)
Type of:
Algonquian, Algonquin
a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast

n the Algonquian language spoken by the Shawnee

Type of:
Algonquian, Algonquian language, Algonquin
family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains
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