Shawnee

The Shawnee group includes the Central Algonquian peoples of the Ohio Valley and the Great Lakes: the five divisions of the Shawnee, including the Kispoko, Pekowi and Chalahgawtha, with the related Meskwaki, or Fox, and the Sauk. Their homeland probably lay in southern Ohio, where some link the Shawnee to the Fort Ancient culture.

The Iroquois of the Beaver Wars drove the Shawnee out of Ohio, and they scattered across the Upper South and Pennsylvania in the seventeenth century. The Meskwaki fought France in the Fox Wars of 1701—1742, and a French army killed hundreds in 1730. The Shawnee fought to hold their land until Tecumseh's War of 1810—1813, and removal west began in the 1830s.