Shawnee
noun
- pl. Shawnees or Shawnee a member of a North American Indian people living at various times in the East and Midwest, and now chiefly in Oklahoma
- the Algonquian language of this people
See Shawnee in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(shô-nēˈ)
noun pl. Shawnee Shawnee or
Shaw·nees a. A Native American people formerly inhabiting parts of the Cumberland and central Ohio valleys, with present-day populations in Oklahoma. The Shawnee figured prominently in the resistance to white settlement of the Ohio Valley in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
b. A member of this tribe.
- The Algonquian language of the Shawnee.
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