What is "shawnees"

Usage examples of "shawnees".

Among all the little bunches of Shawnees that have straggled in here, I doubt there are thirty braves, and a lot of them are near middle-aged.

I should still be with the Indians had I not suspected that Hamilton, the British Governor, had formed a plan with the Hurons, Shawnees, Delawares, and other tribes, to strike a terrible blow at the whites along, the river.

They allied themselves with the Mingoes, Delawares and Shawnees and made a fierce war on the Virginian pioneers.

The deserted Shawnee village meant to me that the alarm had been sounded in the towns of the Shawnees and the Delawares.

The Wyandots took a northwest trail and the Delawares and the Shawnees traveled east.

He had found that the Indians were Shawnees and he had expected they were Delawares.

The presence of Shawnees so near the settlement confirmed his belief that a concerted movement was to be made on the whites in the near future.

Zane, I'd been here days before, but I run into some Shawnees, and they gave me a hard chase.

Now and then the long, peculiarly broken yell of the Shawnees rang out clear and strong.

Full two hundred yards was not proof against Wetzel's deadly smallbore, and Red Fox, the foremost war chieftain of the Shawnees, lay dead, a victim to the hunter's vengeance.

Jonathan and Wetzel tell me the Shawnees and Chippewas have taken the warpath again.

The Hurons, Delawares, Shawnees and other western tribes have been demoralized by the French traders' rum, and incited to fierce hatred by Girty and his renegades.

The Wyandots in the west, the Shawnees in the south, and the Delawares in the north were especially requested to come.

One day, being hotly pursued by Shawnees, he had been headed off on this cliff, and had let himself down on the ledge, intending to drop from it to the tops of the trees below.

They were mostly Delawares, with many Shawnees, and a few Hurons among them.