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Shawnee

(s̸hô nē′, s̸hô′nē)

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

Origin: back-form. < Shawnese, taken as pl. < earlier Shawanoes, ult. < Shawnee shaawanooki, lit., people of the south

See Shawnee in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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.

Origin:

Origin: Back-formation from obsolete Shawnese

Origin: , from Shawnee shaawanooki, those of the south, Shawnee

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