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Shawnee
People ID: 4038
Type: ethnic group
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- UPDATED: 7.21.2025
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AKA:
šaawanwaki, šaawanooki
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The Shawnee hunted and traded along the Cumberland River is what is today Tennessee, and had several villages along the river. Their primary village was near the present site of Nashville. The Shawnee lived in this region from as early as the 1670s to around 1714, when they were driven out by the Cherokee and Chickasaw.
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North from the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio
Red, White & Black: The Peoples of Early North America
Melungeon History and Myth
Carolina Genesis: Beyond the Color Line
Almost White: A Study of Certain Racial Hybrids in the Eastern United States
How They Shine: Melungeon Characters in the Fiction of Appalachia
Lee County, Virginia: History Revealed Through Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of Its Ancestors
Squaw Winter
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