Shawneeadj.n.

1674 H. Woodward Let. 31 Dec. in Coll. S. Carolina Hist. Soc. (1897) V. 460 Two days before my departure arrived two Savana Indians.

1714 J. Lawson Hist. Carolina 171 The Savanna Indians, who formerly lived on the Banks of the Messiasippi, and remov'd thence to the Head of one of the Rivers of South-Carolina.

1728 in C. S. R. Hildeburn Century of Printing (1885) 94 Two Indian Treaties..Between the Honourable..Lieut. Governour of the Province of Pennsylvania.. And The Chiefs of the Conestogoe, Delaware, Shawanese and Canawese Indians.

1737 Documents Colonial Hist. New-York (1855) VI. 106 I am very Sorry that there has been any Misunderstanding betwixt Governour Pen & the Shaweno Indians.

1748 C. Weiser Jrnl. 10 Sept. in R. G. Thwaites Early Western Travels (1904) I. 31 I made a Present to the old Shawonese Chief.

1788 J. Edwards Observ. Lang. Muhhekaneew Indians 6 The analogy between the Mohegan, the Shawanee, and the Chippewau languages.

1817 J. de Mun State Papers U.S. (1819) XII. 450 The balance of our men, (except five Shonee Indians, who had left us several days before),..came on this side of the first chain of mountains.

1821 T. Nuttall Jrnl. Trav. Arkansa Territory 54 We stopped awhile at a Shawnee camp.

1826 T. Flint Recoll. Last Ten Years 231 A rich commandant..married a Shawnese wife.

1855 A. W. Whipple Explor. Railway Route III. 51 [Figure D illustrates] one of a pair of Shawnee ear-drops..made by a native artist.

1949 Democrat 30 June 7/4 Several Shawnee towns were set up in various places over the state [of Alabama].

1973 A. H. Whiteford N. Amer. Indian Arts 17 Creek and Shawnee bowls have designs incised around the rims.

1693 Documents Colonial Hist. New-York (1854) IV. 43 Wee are glad that the Showannoes..did make their application to you last fall for protection.

1737 Documents Colonial Hist. New-York (1855) VI. 107 I Recommend to you to keep the Shawenoes among your Selves as you have Done the Tuskierores to prevent their Going to the French.

1755 R. Dinwiddie Let. 14 Dec. in S. M. Hamilton Lett. to Washington (1898) I. 149 The Cherokees have taken up the Hatchet against the French & Shawnese.

1786 in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. (1793) 2 i. 125 The Huron, or Wyandot language having no affinity to the Shawanese, Delawares, and other nations.

1828 M. Neville Last of Boatmen in Western Souvenir 1829 118 The scout thought it as praiseworthy to bring in the scalp of a Shawnee, as the skin of a panther.

1837 R. M. Bird Nick of Woods I. 15 The Shawanee and the Wyandot still hunted the bear and buffalo in the cane-brake.

1854 Southern Literary Messenger 20 401 The Shawnese still deserved their chastisement.

1891 H. F. O'Beirne Leaders Indian Territory p. viii/1 The Shawnees awaited their opportunity until the Tonkaway braves had departed on a big hunt.

1964 B. G. Hoffman Anthropol. Papers of Smithsonian Inst. No. 70 223 The Shawnee have what may be considered the best claim to having resided in..the Fort Ancient territory.

1792 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry I. v. iii. 61 It would be necessary for him only to talk Irish, which he might pass for the Shawanee.

1940 B. L. Whorf Lang. Thought & Reality (1956) 160 C. F. Voegelin has accomplished the difficult and signal work of analyzing an immense number of baffling stem compounds of Shawnee into their component lexemes (stems) and other morphemes (formatives).

1972 Language 48 846 [It] is supposed to be found in..Tacana, Shawnee..and Wichita.

1836 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants (rev. ed.) 133 Hydrophyllum virginicum is used as a salad, under the name of Shawanese salad in North America.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. at Hydrophyllum

1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Shawnee how.

1931 W. N. Clute Common Names Plants 31 At least three plants commemorate them: the Shawnee haw.., the Shawnee salad.., and the Shawnee tree, also called Shawnee wood.

1780 J. Donelson Jrnl. 29 Mar. in Three Pioneer Tennessee Documents (1964) 9 Gathered some herbs in the bottoms of Cumberland, which some of the Company called Shawanee Sallad.

1822 Trans. Hort. Soc. London 4 445 The Hydrophyllum Virginicum is called by the Americans of the Western States, Indian Sallad, or Shawanee Sallad, because these Indians eat it as such, when tender.

1818 W. P. C. Barton Compendium Floræ Philadelphicæ I. 9 Catalpa-Tree, Catawba-Tree, Schawnes-wood.