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A 6 page overview of the Shawnee tribe of Native Americans. Provides a cultural description of the Shawnee and a brief overview of their encounters with the white encroachers to their lands in the 1700s and 1800s. Outlines the role of Tecumseh in these encounters, the ultimate loss of Shawnee traditional lands, and the forced move to the reservations. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPnaShaw.doc
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people are like poisonous serpents: when chilled, they are feeble and harmless, but invigorate them with warmth, and they sting their benefactors to death."
(Langer 19). The words recorded above were spoken by the great
Shawnee chief Tecumseh in 1811 while rallying the Osage in his crusade for a joint Native American effort against the whites who had invaded their country. The truth of
these words has never been more apparent as they are today as we look back in history and note what fate has befallen the Shawnee and other Native American tribes
at the hands of the whites who took over their homelands. The white flood of immigrants to the Americas evolved from a helpless mass to one armed and ready
to carry out any atrocity to claim the lands and resources of the Native American. The Shawnee were only one of the many tribes who would ultimately fall in
their wake. The Shawnee people were basically a peaceful people prior to the arrival of the Europeans to their lands. Although, like
any people, they had some confrontations with other groups, these confrontations were relatively small scale and of little overall impact in comparison to what they would soon face with the
newest arrivals to their territory, the whites. The Shawnee would soon gain a reputation as one of the more warlike tribes. They took part, in fact, in just about
every war of the Old Northwest during the eighteenth century. The Shawnee are members of the Algonquin linguistic group which they share with
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