Shawnee tribe

This is a photo of my great-great grandfather Oseola Atkins (Adkins) taken at the Hazel River in Culpeper, VA in 1901. He was born around 1850 in Sussex County, VA to Britton Adkins and Martha Reed. The photo was taken at this location: 38°35'53.0"N 78°03'41.3"W 38.598069, -78.061482

Many Indian tribes claimed Kentucky as hunting territory in the eighteenth century, though for the most part their villages were built elsewhere. For the Sha...

He led the greatest defeat in American history by a Native American but remains little known.Most Americans will at least have heard of the great Shawnee chief, the mighty Tecumseh. But very few know of Blue Jacket, Tecumseh’s Shawnee predecessor, who began the fight to save Shawnee lands from the white juggernaut moving West. Blue Jacket was born “Weyapiersenwah” of Shawnee parents in 1743 in a small tribal village on Deer Creek in what is today the Appalachian region of Ross County, Ohio…

Wapameepto (aka Gives Light As He Walks, aka Wapamiqto, aka White Road, aka Big Jim) - Shawnee - 1898

Shawnee Indian chief Cornstalk claims the mounds and earthworks in the Ohio Valley were built by an ancient race with white complexion

The Shawnee are an Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe who lived in the Ohio Valley when they were first encountered by Europeans.

Artist's concept of a Shawnee warrior in the 1700's Students of the colonial era are probably most familiar with the Iroquois Nation o...

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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is Part 3 in a 9-part series on Ohio’s great American Indian chiefs released by the Ohio Historical Society on Nov. 3, 1967. Richland Source has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Ohio History Connection to share content across our sites. Cornstalk was chief of the Shawnee who first settled in the Scioto Valley. […]

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