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How to use Shawnee in a sentence

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As a Shawnee police department lieutenant explained to reporters, the transparent tape performed as advertised.
That the two are associated directs attention towards Richard Johnson, since Tecumseh was a Shawnee.
Note also that in 1839, the Kickapoo and the Shawnee were allied together in Texas during the Cherokee War.
This journey entailed a keelboat to Cincinnati, then to Louisville, Kentucky, and Shawnee Town, Illinois, and finally by wagon to Saint Louis.
Born in Lancaster, Ohio, the sixth child of Charles R. and Mary Hoyt Sherman, Sherman was named for the Shawnee Indian leader Tecumseh.
Additionally, since 1808 they had been fighting a guerrilla war with Indian tribes loosely confederated by the great Shawnee chief Tecumseh.
In 1817 some Cherokees made the journey west to join original inhabitants like the Kiowa, Shawnee, Comanche, and Pawnee.
Perhaps the greatest native leader to have arisen since Europeans first arrived in North America was Tecumseh of the Shawnee.
The southern limit of the track passed some tens of miles north of the Shawnee village.
The Eastern Shawnee tribe of Oklahoma wants to reclaim ancestral homeland in central and southern Ohio.
The Red Stick losses were, according to the Americans, thirty-three, including one of Tecumseh's Shawnee prophets and twelve African Americans.
Alone among prominent Shawnee chiefs, Blue Jacket gave his support to the Prophet and his brother Tecumseh.
The Prophet was also known as Lalawethika or Tenskwatawa and was the brother of the Shawnee warrior Tecumseh.
The men encountered and killed three more Shawnee prophets left by Tecumseh.
On 7 February 1778, Boone and thirty salt makers were captured by Shawnee Indians.
In 1812 the Shawnee chief Tecumseh, whose mother was Creek, organized a rebellion against the United States.
At the Treaty of Camp Charlotte, a Shawnee faction was forced to acknowledge Virginia's ownership of Kentucky.
It was acquired by David Ross McCord in 1889 in the belief that it had belonged to the Shawnee Chief Tecumseh.
In that year the Whig candidate was William Henry Harrison, who had become well known after his defeat of the Shawnee at the Battle of Tippecanoe decades earlier.
According to Bergel, Native American legend says that Tenskwatawa, a Shawnee warrior and prophet, put the curse on General William Henry Harrison at the Battle of Tippecanoe.
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He was a finely formed young man, about nineteen years of age, from the Shawnee tribe residing near the Scioto River.
The Shawnee was paying a tribute to him, and he could not keep from hearing it.
Came the Shawnee, Cherokee, and Chickasaw to fight and hunt.
The crew consisted of two half-breeds, who claimed to be white men, though a mixture of the French creole and the Shawnee and Potawattomie.
Jackson's last visit of the day is with Shawnee Brunt, 13, who has six Siberian huskies of her own at home in Phoenix.
The properties are the 445,000-square-foot Shawnee Mall in Shawnee, Oklahoma and the 697,000-square-foot Brazos Mall in Lake Jackson, Texas.
Harrison's force was attacked by Shawnees led by the Shawnee Prophet, a brother of Tecumseh.
There is a strong affinity between the Shawnee and the Mohican dialects.
Shawnee war parties lead and supplied by the British attacked Kentucky settlements the entire eight years of the American Revolution.
If Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull are the most famous American Indians, Tecumseh, the legendary Shawnee chieftain, is the most revered.
I saw the Shawnee chief, father of Tecumseh, snap his piece at the boy.
One example is the Shawnee Public School District's decision last year to go with the handheld option.
Boone liked Chief Blackfish, but he did not really want to be a Shawnee.
But it was long after midnight now and the Shawnee Club would be closed.
Red Eagle, the Shawnee chief, is a man who thinks, and a man who holds on.
Red Eagle, the Shawnee chief, was a statesman as well as a warrior.
Until I heard a Shawnee scalp-cry I could rest easy as to my companion.
The story is of her adjustment to life with the Shawnee, her two husbands, six children and her gradual adaptation back to so-called civilization.
The re-activation of the Shawnee project will focus on the evaluation of the diamond potential of the Lollypop kimberlitic intrusion in Crittenden County, western Kentucky.
Her mother's cheerful yet persistent tone startled 16-year-old Kebekah Galloway, lost as she was in conversation with the handsome Shawnee chief, Tecumseh.
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