Shawnee

Shawnee

The Shawnee Prophet, Tenskwatawa (1775–1836), ca. 1820, portrait by Charles Bird King
Total population
7,584 enrolled,[1] 14,000 self-identified
Regions with significant populations
United States ( Pennsylvania,  Maryland,  South Carolina,  Virginia,  Indiana,  Illinois,  Alabama,  Missouri,  Kansas and  Oklahoma); formerly  Kentucky,  Ohio, and  West Virginia[1]
Languages
Shawnee, English
Religion
traditional religions and Christianity
Related ethnic groups
Miami, Menominee[2]

The Shawnee people are a Native American tribe that originated in Tennessee. They are part of the Northeast Woodlands.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Oklahoma Indian Affairs Commission. Oklahoma Indian Nations Pocket Pictorial. Archived February 11, 2009, at the Wayback Machine 2008.
2. ↑ "Algonquian, Algic". Ethnologue. Retrieved 28 April 2016.