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Shaw⋅nee

  [shaw-nee]
–noun, plural -nees, (especially collectively) -nee.
1. a member of an Algonquian-speaking tribe formerly in the east-central U.S., now in Oklahoma.
2. the Algonquian language of the Shawnee tribe.
3. a town in E Kansas. 29,653.
4. a city in central Oklahoma. 26,506.
Origin:
1720–30, Americanism; back formation from earlier Shawnese, Shawanese (construed as pl.), reshaping (with -ese ) of earlier Shawanoes (pl.) < Munsee Delaware šá⋅wano⋅w (sing.) < Shawnee ša⋅wano⋅ki Shawnees, lit., people of the south
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Shaw·nee   (shô-nē')   
n.   pl. Shawnee or Shaw·nees

    1. A Native American people formerly inhabiting parts of the Cumberland and central Ohio valleys, with present-day populations in Oklahoma. The Shawnee figured prominently in the resistance to white settlement of the Ohio Valley in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

    2. A member of this tribe.

  2. The Algonquian language of the Shawnee.


[Back-formation from obsolete Shawnese, from Shawnee shaawanooki, those of the south, Shawnee.]
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Shawnee 
1674, from Munsee sawanow, from Shawnee sawanoki, lit. "people of the south."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
Shawnee
Jan 01, 2003; SHAWNEE SHAWNEE. Ancient residents of the Ohio Valley, the Shawnees ("Shawanos" or "Southerners") are an Alqonquian-speaking...
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The Shawnees and Their Neighbors, 1795-1870
Apr 01, 2007; The Shawnees and Their Neighbors, 1795-1870. By Stephen Warren. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 217....
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The Shawnees and Their Neighbors, 1795-1870.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; The Shawnees and Their Neighbors, 1795-1870. By Stephen Warren. (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2005. x, 217 pp. Cloth...
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Shawnee Hills chief resigns amid money woes: '98 audit questions viability of nonprofit mental health center
May 01, 1999; Shawnee Hills' top two executives stepped down on Friday with little warning, no explanation and plenty of financial problems....
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Shawnee Hills doesn't plan cuts
May 05, 1999; STAFF WRITER Top staff at Shawnee Hills had an early morning meeting on Tuesday, but no one else resigned and no one was fired....
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