A tribe of North American Indians who occupied Western New York and part of Ohio, but were driven away and widely dispersed by the Iroquois.
Source: Webster's dictionarySome even accused Dunmore of colluding with the Shawnees and arranging the war to deplete the Virginia militia and help safeguard the Loyalist cause, should there be a colonial rebellion. Source: Internet
Some scholars believe that the Fort Ancient people "were ancestors of the historic Shawnee people, or that, at the very least, the historic Shawnees absorbed remnants of these older peoples." Source: Internet
The New Madrid earthquake was interpreted by the Muscogee to support the Shawnees' resistance. Source: Internet
They lived interspersed among the Delawares and Shawnees of that area. Source: Internet