shawnees in English
noun
1
a city in northeastern Kansas, southwest of Kansas City; population 60,954 (est. 2008).
2
an industrial city in central Oklahoma; population 30,562 (est. 2008).
3
a member of an American Indian people living formerly in the eastern US and now chiefly in Oklahoma.
Several tribes, especially the Cherokees and Creeks in the South and the Shawnees , Kickapoos, Miamis, and others north of the Ohio River, held substantial military power.
4
the Algonquian language of the Shawnee.
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1. Charles Bluejacket, one-time chief of the Shawnees and grandson of Blue Jacket.
2. Half-naked Osages with helmet-crests and eagle-quills, full-dressed in breech-clouts and leggings fringed with scalp-locks, the tallest men in North America, from their warm south hills, mingled with Pottawattamies of the Illinois, makers of fire, Shawnees with vermilion around their eyes, Sacs, of the red badge, and Foxes, Adroitest of thieves