While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
The Shawnees or Shawano are an erratic tribe of Algonkin stock, supposed to have
been one primarily with the Kickapoo. Were first discovered in Wisconsin, but
moved east ward, and, coming in contact with the Iroquois south of Lake Erie,
were driven to the banks of the Cumberland. Some passed thence into South
Carolina and Florida, and, by the early part of the eighteenth century, had
spread into Pennsylvania and New York. At the close of the Spanish and English
war those in Florida emigrated and joined the northern bands, and, again coming
into contact with the Iroquois, were driven westward into Ohio. Joined in
Pontiac's uprising in 1763, and rallied under the English flag during the
Revolution. In 1795 the main body of the tribe were on the Scioto, but some had
already crossed the Mississippi and others south. Those in Missouri ceded their
lands to the Government in 1825, and those in Ohio in 1831, for new homes in
the' Indian Territory. In 1854 the main body in the Indian Territory disbanded
their tribal organization and divided their lands in severalty.
The Eastern Shawnees are those who emigrated direct from Ohio to the
Indian Territory, where they now are. They number 97, and are successful
agriculturists.
The Absentee Shawnees are those who, thirty-five years since, seceded
from the main portion of the tribe in Kansas and located in the northern part of
the Indian Territory, where they have received no aid from Government, but are
now in a highly prosperous condition. They number 563 at the present time.
Descriptive Catalogue, Photographs Of North American Indians. United States Geological Survey
of the Territories, 1877 by W. H. Jackson, Photographer of the Survey,
F. V. Hayden, U. S. Geologist.
