Shawnees


noun, plural Shawnees (especially collectively) Shawnee.
1.
a member of an Algonquian-speaking tribe formerly in the east-central U.S., now in Oklahoma.
2.
the Algonquian language of the Shawnee tribe.
3.
a town in E Kansas.
4.
a city in central Oklahoma.
noun
1.
(pl) -nees, -nee. a member of a North American Indian people formerly living along the Tennessee River
2.
the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family
Shawnees [(shaw-neez)]

A tribe of Native Americans who inhabited Ohio, Indiana, and other parts of the Middle West during the early nineteenth century. The most famous Shawnee leader was Tecumseh, who joined with the British against the Americans during the War of 1812.

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