Shawnee Tribe

Alternate Names and Spellings: Shawnee, Shawanoe, Shawanoese, Shawanee, Shawonee

Ancestral Homeland: near Cumberland River, Ohio and Tennessee River (Georgia,Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia and Ohio)

Federal Recognition :

Leaders: Tecumseh

Brief Timeline

 * 1677: early contact with non-Indians, a French trader La Potherie
 * 1689-1763: French and Indian Wars, sided with the French
 * 1754: Eskippakithiki, a Shawnee settlement abandoned
 * 1763: joined the Ottawa and other tribes in Pontiac's Rebellion against the British
 * 1769: Shawnee warned Daniel Boone to leave "Kentucky"
 * 1774: fought Virginians in Lord Dunmore's War. (Lord Dunmore gave veterans of the French and Indian War who fought under him land that belonged to the Shawnee)
 * October 6, 1774: Point Pleasant, West Virginia- Treaty - ceded land
 * 1775: Sided with the British during the Revolutionary War
 * 1782: The Shawnee joind by the Delaware, Wyandot, Miami, Ottawa, Chippewa, and Mingo in a Confederacy to remove settlers from Kentucky and Ohio.
 * 1794: General Anthony Wayne defeated the Shawnee at Fallen Timbers, Ohio
 * 1794: land ceded
 * 1795: Treaty of Fort Greenville; proposed factory system
 * 1802: factory established at at Fort Wayne
 * 1812-1815: War of 1812, at the end of the War, the colonial government of Virginia gave bonuse to soldiers in the form of military tracts, in Kentucky
 * October 5, 1813: Battle of the Thames, Tecumseh killed
 * 1815: many Shawnee resicing near Cape Girardeau and on the Merrimack River near St. Louis. Delaware and Abesentee Shawnee moved into Arkansas and in 1820 moved to Texas.
 * 1825: a censu fo Indians in the United States total of Shawnee 2,293 (not including Shawnee living in Texas)
 * 1828: Fish or Jackson band of Shawneee Indians move to Kansas
 * 1831: August 8, Treaty at Wapaghkonnetta and Hog creek in Ohio. Land ceded and removed to land west of Missouri.
 * 1832: Black Hawk War
 * 1832: Wapakoneta Shawnee left Ohio and removed west of the Missouri River, into Kansas
 * 1833: Hog Creek Shawnee removed to Kansas
 * 1835: Newpaper printed by Jotham Meeker
 * 1861-65: supported the Union during the Civil War
 * 1867: Shawnee located on three reservation in Indian Territory. Apsentee Shawnee from Texas settled with the Potawatomi (Pottawatomie County); Kansas Shawnee to the Cherokee reservation in 1870 they were incorporated with the Cherokee Nation; Mixed band of Seneca and Shawnee settled in Ottawa County, Oklahoma.

Migrations:
Ohio, Indiana, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas

Additional References to the History of the Tribe
Frederick Webb Hodge, in his Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, gave a more complete history of the Shawnee tribe, with estimations of the population of the tribe at various time periods. Additional details are given in John Swanton's The Indian Tribes of North America.

Ohio History Central article on the Shawnee Indians

Tribal Headquarters
Shawnee Tribe P.O. Box 189 Miami, OK 74355 Phone: 918.542.2441 Fax: 918.542.2922

Records
Correspondence and Census

Removal/Census


 * 1871 Shawnee Tribe who moved to Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory before June 10, 1871 www.accessgenealogy.com

Treaties


 * 1786 January 31, on the Miami
 * 1795 August 3, at Greenville
 * 1803 June 7, at Fort Wayne with the Delaware
 * 1805 July 4, at Fort Industry, with the Wyandot
 * 1808 November 25, at Brownstown, with the Chippewa
 * 1814 July 22, at Greenville, with the Wyandot
 * 1815 September 8, at Spring Wells, with the Wyandot
 * 1817 September 29,with the Wyandot
 * 1818 September 17, at St. Mary's, with the Wyandot
 * 1825 November 7, at St. Louis,
 * 1831 July 20, at Lewistown, with the Seneca
 * 1831 August 8, at Wapaghkonnetta
 * 1832 December 29, at Seneca Agency with the Seneca
 * 1832 October 26, at Castor Hill, with Shawnee
 * 1854 May 10, at Washington
 * 1865 September 13, at Fort Smith - unratified- with the Cherokee and other Tribes in the Indian Territory
 * 1867 February 23, at Washington, with Seneca, Mixed Seneca and Shawnee, Quapaw, Etc.,

Vital Records


 * Quapaw Agency, M595, birth and deaths 1924-1932, FHL Film: 581408
 * Shawnee Agency, M595, births and deaths 1910-1934, FHL Film: 581870

Important Web Sites

 * The Shawnee Tribe Official Website
 * Shawnee Tribe Wikipedia
 * Constitution of the United Tribe of Shawnee Indians