Talk:Shawnee

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View comments (edit) This is a very thorough, well-written, NPOV page. Needs the table template, and I agree with removing the disambiguation page since there doesn't appear to be anything else to disambiguate. Could also use a little more current information. Wichitalineman, Jul 28 2006

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There's some RACIST stuff at the beginning. Can't get to it to edit it.

[edit] Requested move

The root name Shawnee is just a redirect to Shawnee (tribe). There's no reason to use the (tribe) disambiguation when the simpler root name is unused. --Kevin Myers July 8, 2005 13:51 (UTC)

• Agree/rename, because the tribe is the most common use of the word "Shawnee" (and because other names exist for other articles with the word Shawnee, e.g. Shawnee, Kansas), the article on the tribe should take Shawnee, and Shawnee (disambiguation) should be used for all other articles with the word Shawnee (as it is). SwissCelt 8 July 2005 14:15 (UTC)
• Agree The disambig page was originally at Shawnee, but I found that most of the links to the page were for the tribe. So I moved the disambig page to its current location and changed the redirect to the tribe. I probably should have just moved the tribe page at that time, but I can't recall anymore whether there was any reason other than laziness why I didn't move the page. older≠wiser July 8, 2005 15:56 (UTC)

I've done the move. Talrias (t | e | c) 20:29, 9 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Blue Jacket

Folks, was it really so horrible to have "Blue Jacket's" native name (Weyapiersenwah) written in this article? I can accept that it's Wikipedia's policy to link English wikis with the English name. I don't agree, but I can accept it. Still, I see no need to wipe out that bit of knowledge from this article, just because there's a more commonly used name for him which he might not have even used himself. SwissCelt 06:51, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Question

• Saw mention of "Absentee Shawnee" somewhere. If anyone knows anything, I would love to see a bit of info on what the "Absentee Shawnee" were. Thanks. jengod 06:43, July 16, 2005 (UTC) [The Absentee Shawnee are one of the three federally recognized Shawnee tribes in Oklahoma.]

[edit] Addition

Hi, i added a lot of stuff, the thing is, i couldn't verify most of it by the meaning of written words, most of my information comes from the internet. I tried to crosscheck the in formation from various pages to be a bit more on the safe side. if anyone has suggestions regarding the content, please let me know...

And please, as i am not a native speaker, look over the text for grammatical errors, as i am sure there are plenty.

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and of course the relating pages of wikipedia...

--Larzan 17:15, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Another question

Hi, I was looking for some information about book I have read, I just wanted to know something about tribe it describes and what was historical background, however it took more time than I expected (due to fact that my native language is written as it`s spoken and I couldn`t work out how keywords should acctualy be spelled). I found out that tribe is shawnee, but this makes that book wierd - because it takes place in northen Canada near Great bear lake, but it seems that shawnee lived in teritory of USA and author (book is about his childhood) claims that he is great grand son of Tecumseh. Well, book also tells about fiting with engish army (?) and that tribe were hiding for years until white people found them again, but I couldn`t find anything about that, so I still haven`t found anything about historical background. If you have some information about this please tell me about it on my talk page Xil 17:07, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

When the Iroquois drove the Shawnee out of Ohio, you didn't mention that portions of the tribe also fled to what's today Tennessee and Georgia, living with the Cherokee and Creeks. In fact, the Shawnee and Creeks still have some kind of religious agreement about the secret contents of certain medicine bundles, if you'll read the anthropology book Shawnee by James H. Howard. This book also has lots of info about Shawnee culture, history, and mythology. The Shawnee stories also include a lot of Southern influence.

[edit] Origins

I have read elsewhere (e.g., on the Fort Ancients wiki page) that many archaeologists believe the Shawnee to be descendants of the Fort Ancients. Should that be mentioned here? Also there is no mention of the Shawnee's apparent relation to the Kickapoo. Thanks, Doppelbock 12:20, 12 May 2006 (UTC)