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Shawnee Indians
A once powerful family of the Algonquian nation, supposed to have been originally of the Kickapoo tribe, a larger portion of whom moved eastward, and a part removed in 1648 to the Fox River country, in Wisconsin.
The Iroquois drove them back from the point of emigration south of Lake Erie, when they took a stand in the basin of the Cumberland River, where they established their great council-house and held sway over a vast domain.
Some of them went south to the region of the Carolinas and Florida, where those in the latter region held friendly relations with the Spaniards for a while, when they joined the English in the Carolinas, and were known as Yamasees and Savannahs.
At about the time that the English settled at Jamestown (1607), some Southern tribes drove the Shawnees from the Cumberland region, when some of them crossed the Ohio and settled on the Scioto River, at and near the present Chillicothe.
Others wandered into Pennsylvania, where, late in the se
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Sylvania, proposed State of
Under Jefferson's plan for the creation of new States from what was known in 1784 as the Northwest Territory.
The third tier of projected new States spread from the forty-fifth parallel of latitude to the Lake of the Woods; was covered with dense forests of pine, hickory, and oak; and was designated as Sylvania.
Immediately beneath this tract was a narrow strip stretching from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi.
This was called Michigania, and a part of it now forms the centre of Wisconsin.
See Saratoga, proposed State of.