Posted on October 18, 2017 at 8:00 AM |
What are some traditional Shawnee Indian food recipes?
Shawnee cakes and three sisters soup are some traditional recipes from the Shawnee Indians. Variations of these recipes were used by Native American tribes throughout North America and were also adapted by European settlers.
The exact origin of Shawnee cakes is unknown, but some historians believe the dish originally belonged to the Shawnee people. These simple fried corn cakes, also known as Johnny cakes...
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The Treaty of Fort Wayne (1809)
Tecumseh's War
The two principal adversaries in the conflict, chief Tecumseh and American politician William Henry Harrison, had both been junior participants in the Battle of Fallen Timbers at the close of the Northwest Indian Wars in 1794. Tecumseh was not among the Native American signers of the Treaty of Greenville, which had ended the war, when the Shawnee and other Native Americans ceded much of thei...
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Excerpt:
This volume is the second to be published of the early nineteenth century manuscripts of C. C. Trowbridge on the ethnology of the tr...
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Shawnee Ceremonial Dance: Fall Bread Dance
As with other Indian Nations, Shawnee ritual was expressed most publicly in their dances. The Shawnee ritual year opened with the Spring Bread Dance and closed with the Fall Bread Dance. Some Shawnee groups had a Green Corn Dance, but it was not the beginning of the ritual year as in other northeastern or sout...
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George Rogers Clark
Throughout the American Revolution, Shawnee warriors conducted raids against American settlements in Kentucky. In the summer of 1780, George Rogers Clark, hoping to prevent further attacks, led 1,050 men against the Shawnee living in the Miami...
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The Shawnee Bluejacket Family
(This is a re-post of the Native Heritage Project)
https://nativeheritageproject.com/2012/08/22/the-shawnee-bluejacket-family/
Posted on August 22, 2012 by Roberta Estes
The Shawnee Bluejacket family reaches back into the mid-1700s. Records begin with Chief Bluejacket himself, also known by his Native names of Se-pet-te-he-nath, Big Rabbit, his name given at birth and Wa Weyapiersehnwaw, his adult c...
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Tecumseh: Vision of Glory
By Glenn Tucker
Pickle Partners Publishing, Nov 6, 2015 - Biography & Autobiography - 407 pages
In the years just preceding the War of 1812 one man, an Indian, dominated the American frontier—Tecumseh. He emerges here as a vivid, splendid character, a man of unusual talents and noble aims, whereas in much previous history and biography he has been depicted as a baffling, sinister, often bloody figure̵...
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The Shawnee Indians: Their Customs, Their Traditions and Folk-Lore
Written by: James R. Carselowey, Journalist
April 26, 1938
Indian pioneer papers, 1860-1935. (Millwood, New York: Kraus Microform, 1989).
The University of Oklahoma: Digital Library
James R. Carselowey wrote several articles for the Indian Pioneer Papers. The above referenced article written in 1938 focuses on stories...
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The Shawnee Sun, 1
The First Indian-language Periodical
Published in the United States
Doug C. McMurtrie
November 1933 (Vol. 2, No. 4), pages 338 to 342
Transcribed by lhn; digitized with permission of the Kansas Historical Society.
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Posted on September 15, 2017 at 8:35 AM |
History of the Shawnee Indians: From the Year 1681 to 1854, Inclusive
Front Cover
Henry Harvey
Ephraim Morgan & sons, 1855 - Shawnee Indians - 306 pages
Author Henry Harvey, member of the Religious Society of Friends spent time with the Shawnee Indians learning their history and culture. Although the intent was to teach the Shawnee doctrines and principles of the Christian Religion Henry Harvey took account of the Sha...
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https://www.loc.gov/item/2012645311/" target="_blank">Library of Congress - Wood engravings--1810-1890.
Tecumseh,--Shawnee Chief,--1768-1813
Tenskwatawa,--Shawnee Prophet
Created / Published [between 1814 and 1890]
The Shawanese prophet and Tecumseh / Huyot.
Print shows Tenskwatawa...
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Ceremonial Pipe, Attributed to Tecumseh
From the Library of Congress
Ceremonial Pipe, Tecumseh
SOURCE COLLECTION
Filson Special Collections
REPOSITORY
Filson Historical Society
DIGITAL ID icufaw apf0012
Posted on August 31, 2017 at 4:00 PM |
Posted on May 31, 2015 by Ojibwa
The Shawnee, whose name means “Southerners”, once occupied a vast region west of the Cumberland mountains of the Appalachian chain in what is now part of Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia. Like the other Algonquian-speaking tribes of the western part of the Northeast Woodlands Culture Area, the Shawnee had a t...
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https://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/shawnee-indians.htm" target="_blank">Shawnee Indians
Alabama, District of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Native American, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia
Updated: October 18, 2013
Shawnee Tribe: Meaning “southerners,&...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tiGHcDflcI&list=PLB5IfubB61oaP0jS97IAUNAvPpNAZaGPB" target="_blank">Tecumseh: The LastWarrior (1995)
Director: Larry Elikan...
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