Pekowi

The Pekowi were one of the five divisions of the Shawnee, a Native American people. Shawnee ritual leaders traditionally came from this patrilineal band.

In 1745 their chief Peter Chartier led about 400 Pekowi from Pennsylvania to Lower Shawneetown and then to Kentucky, where they founded Eskippakithiki. Pekowi warriors fought for the French at Fort Necessity in 1754. In 1780 George Rogers Clark's Kentucky militia bombarded Piqua on Ohio's Mad River, drove the Shawnee out and burned the village.