Aaboukingon

Aaboukingon is one of the recorded names of the Ohio River, the great waterway that flows westward to join the Mississippi. Along its lower course the Ohio receives the Wabash from the north and the Cumberland and Tennessee from the south. These converging rivers connected the homelands of many Indigenous peoples, including the Shawnee, with routes through the interior. French traders followed the waterway during the eighteenth century, and later American settlement spread along its banks.