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Hathawekela Indian Tribe History
Hathawekela.
A principal division of the Shawnee, the name of which is of
uncertain etymology. They emigrated from the wouth about 1697,
together with other Shawnee bands, and settled with them, partly
on Susquehanna and partly on Allegheny River, Pa., where they
are mentioned in 1731. Sewickley, Pa., probably takes its name
from them.
According to W. H. Shawnee, an educated member of the
tribe, the proper form is Ha-tha-we-ke-lah, and they constitute
one of the original 5 principal divisions of the Shawnee.
Together with the Bicowetha (Piqua) and Kispokotha (Kispococoke)
divisions they removed about 1793 to what was then Spanish
territory in east Missouri, thence into Arkansas, and in 1832
into Texas, where with other tribes they settled for a time
near Saline River. Being afterward driven out, by the new Texas
government they removed to the present Oklahoma, where the 3
united bands are now known as Absentee Shawnee, from having been
absent from more recent treaties made with the rest of the
tribe.
The Hathawekela claim to be the "elder brothers"
among the Shawnee, as being the first created of the tribe.
The band formerly under Black Bob, are a portion of this
division.
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Handbook
of American Indians, 1906
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