Shawnee

/ʃɔˈni/

Other forms: Shawnees

Definitions of Shawnee

1. noun

   a member of the Algonquian people formerly living along the Tennessee river
   examples:

   Pontiac

   famous chief of the Ottawa who led an unsuccessful rebellion against the British (1715-1769)

   Tecumseh

   a famous chief of the Shawnee who tried to unite Indian tribes against the increasing white settlement (1768-1813)

   type of:

   Algonquian, Algonquin

   a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast
2. noun

   the Algonquian language spoken by the Shawnee
   type of:

   Algonquian, Algonquian language, Algonquin

   family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains