where did the shawnee indians live in around 1811?

Question

I want to know where the Shawnee Indians were located around the time that Tecumseh met with William Henry Harrison in Vincennes.

Answer 1

The so called Indiana Territory in 1810 included Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota...look at map below. It did not include Missouri which had belonged to the French. The Shawnee did not occupy all of that region but did live in Indiana, southern Illinois...Shawnee Nat'l Park area, parts of western Ohio and southern Michigan

Lewis and Clark encountered the Shawnee in what is now SE Missouri.

Answer 2

The Shawnee Indian tribes were located in South Carolina, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Although now, they are located mostly in Oklahoma. The Shawnee, which meant Southerners, were also known as the Shawano, Savannuca, and Savannah. The Shawnee's attitude towards settlers changed with their leaders. From 1795 to approximately 1811 Chief Blackhoof, the leader at that time, kept the majority of the tribe friendly towards the settlers. Later, in 1811, Tenskwatawa, also known as The Prophet, led the tribe against General William Henry Harrison's army during The Battle at Tippecanoe.

Answer 3

The Shawnee Indians were living in the Ohio Valley as early as the late 1600s. The Iroquois Indians were unwilling to share these rich hunting grounds and drove the Shawnees away. Some went to Illinois; others went to Pennsylvania, Maryland or Georgia. As the power of the Iroquois weakened, the Shawnee Indians moved back into Ohio from the south and the east. They settled in the lower Scioto River valley.

The Shawnees spoke one of the languages of the Algonquian Indians, and so they are related to the Delaware and Ottawa Indians.

The Shawnee Indians were allies of the French until British traders moved into the Ohio Country in 1740. The French pushed the British out of Ohio and the Shawnees became allies of the French again until the British victory in the French & Indian War . As French trading posts turned into British forts, the Ohio Indians, including the Shawnees, fought the British and their colonists. Cornstalk led the Shawnees against British colonists during Lord Dunmore's War in the early 1770s. During the American Revolution the Shawnees fought alongside the British against the colonists. The Shawnees believed that England would prevent the colonists from encroaching further upon the natives' land. After the war the Indians continued to fight the Americans.

The Shawnees were fierce warriors. They were among the most feared and respected of Ohio's Indians. Tecumseh was their most famous chief.

General Anthony Wayne defeated the Shawnees and other Ohio Indians at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794. The Shawnees surrendered most of their lands in Ohio with the signing of the Treaty of Greenville

Many of the Shawnees moved into the Indiana Territory Many of these natives, however, hoped to reclaim their Ohio lands. Chief among them was Tecumseh, who hoped to unite together all native tribes west of the Appalachian Mountains against the Americans. Due to the advanced technology of the whites and the Indians' failure to put aside their traditional differences, Tecumseh's Confederation failed. General William Henry Harrison defeated the Shawnees and their allies at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811. Other Shawnees, like Black Hoof assimilated to white customs, hoping that the whites would allow the natives to continue to live on the land if the Indians adopted white customs.

Between 1831 and 1833, the United States forced the Shawnees to give up their land claims in Ohio. The American government sent the natives to reservations in Oklahoma and Kansas.
The Shawnees divided themselves into different clans. The main chief of the Shawnees could only come from one clan. The name of this clan was Chillicothe .When a village was called Chillicothe, it meant that it was home to the principal chief-the "capitol city" of the Shawnees. Chillicothe was also the name of Ohio's first state capitol, but the modern city is not the site of a former Shawnee town.

The most famous of the Shawnee Indian Tribe was Tecumseh. Tecumseh was born in 1768, probably at Old Piqua, along the Mad River in Ohio. He was a member of the Shawnee Indians and eventually became one of their greatest leaders. Tecumseh's father died at the Battle of Point Pleasant during Lord Dunmore's War . Fearing the encroaching white settlers, many Shawnees, including Tecumseh's mother, moved westward first to Indiana, then Illinois, and finally to Missouri. Tecumseh only eleven years old at the time, remained in the Ohio Country and was raised by his eldest brother, Chiksika, and his sister, Tecumpease.

Chiksika trained Tecumseh to become a warrior. Tecumseh's first military encounter occurred against an army led by George Rogers Clark into the Ohio Country in 1782. Tecumseh, panic-stricken, fled from the battlefield. Humiliated, he determined to never run again. Tecumseh quickly grew into a brave warrior and eventually became a Shawnee leader. He fought against the army of Arthur St. Clair in 1791. The Indians in the Northwest Territory emerged victorious, and Tecumseh became one of the most trusted leaders of the Shawnees.

Tecumseh died at one of the most important battles of the conflict, the Battle of the Thames in 1813. A combined English-Indian force met an American army led by William Henry Harrison. The British soldiers ran from the battlefield, leaving Tecumseh and his Indian followers to continue on their own. The Americans drove the natives from the field, but an American's bullet felled the Indian leader. Tecumseh's death signified the end of united Indian resistance against the Americans. Tecumseh's dream of a united Indian front died with him.

Witness the epic life story of the legendary Shawnee leader as he struggles to defend his sacred homelands in the Ohio country during the late 1700's. "Tecumseh!" has been labeled as one of the most mesmerizing dramas in the nation.