Shawnee

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The Shawnee are an Algonquian-speaking Native American people historically based in the Ohio Valley, known for their resistance to U.S. expansion in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Aliases (2)

Statements (67)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Algonquian-speaking people
Native American people
culturalArea Eastern Woodlands
culturalPractice Green Corn Ceremony
clan system
currentPrimaryLocation Kansas (descendants)
Ohio (diaspora and descendants)
Oklahoma
endonym Šaawanwa
endonymMeaning southerners
ethnicGroupOf United States of America
surface form: "United States"
forcedRemoval Indian Removal policy of the United States
surface form: "Indian Removal era"
historicalRegion Alabama
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Missouri
Ohio Valley region
surface form: "Ohio Valley"

Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Tennessee
West Virginia
knownFor participation in Tecumseh's Confederacy
participation in the American Revolutionary War
participation in the Northwest Indian War
participation in the War of 1812
resistance to U.S. expansion in the early 19th century
resistance to U.S. expansion in the late 18th century
languageFamily Algonquian languages
Algonquian languages
surface form: "Central Algonquian languages"
modernFederallyRecognizedTribe Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma
Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma
Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma
surface form: "Shawnee Tribe"
notableLeader Black Hoof
Blue Jacket
Cornstalk
Opessa Straight Tail
Peter Chartier
Tecumseh
Tenskwatawa
relatedEthnicGroup Fox
Kickapoo
Lenape
Miami
Ojibwe
Potawatomi
Sauk
religion Christianity
traditional tribal religion
subgroup Chalahgawtha
Hathawekela
Kispoko
Mekoche
Piqua, Ohio
surface form: "Piqua"
traditionalHousing longhouse
wigwam
traditionalLanguage Shawnee language
traditionalSubsistence fishing
hunting
maize agriculture
treaty Treaty of Fort Meigs
Treaty of Greenville
Treaty of Lewistown
Treaty of St. Louis (1825)
Treaty of Wapakoneta

Referenced by (22)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Buckongahelas alliedWith Shawnee
Tecumseh's War belligerent Shawnee
Ohio Country claimedBy Shawnee
Blue Jacket ethnicity Shawnee
Tecumseh ethnicity Shawnee
Shawnee language hasDialects Shawnee
this entity surface form: "Absentee Shawnee"
Tecumseh languageSpoken Shawnee
this entity surface form: "Mingo"
Lenape relatedEthnicGroup Shawnee
Blue Jacket tribe Shawnee

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