Shawnee Tribe

Various Spellings: Shawnee, Shawanoe, Shawanoese, Shawanee, Shawonee

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

Federal Recognition :

Leaders: Tecumseh

Brief Timeline
1689-1763: French and Indian Wars, sided with the French

1763: joined the Ottawa and other tribes in Pontiac's Rebellion against the British

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

1794: land ceded

1795: Treaty of Fort Greenville

October 5, 1813: Battle of the Thames, Tecumseh killed

1832: Black Hawk War

1861-65: supported the Union during the Civil War

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
Agency 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 Delawares
 * 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: http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/sha0331.htm
 * 1832: with the Seneca http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/sen0383.htm
 * 1832: http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/sha0370.htm
 * 1854: 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