| Year |
History |
| 1630 |
Approximate year Shawnee were
expelled from the Ohio Valley during the Beaver Wars |
| 1670 |
Had left the upper Ohio Valley
and dispersed into four groups; Chillicothe and Kispoko Shawnee allowed
to settle on the Cumberland River by the Cherokee as a buffer against
the Iroquois; Cherokee allowed Hathawekela Shawnee to settle on the
Savannah River as a buffer against their Catawba enemies |
| 1677 |
Piqua Shawnee settled in eastern
Pennsylvania near the Delaware |
| 1683 |
Chaouesnon Shawnee settled in
Illinois and allied with the Miami |
| 1684 |
Drove the Westo from the
Savannah River |
| 1690 |
Began leaving the Savannah
region due to attacks by Yamasee and Catawba; most went to Pennsylvania;
Illinois Shawnee joined others on Cumberland River |
| 1692 |
Tennessee Shawnee conducted
slaving raid on a Cherokee village |
| 1694 |
Pennsylvania Shawnee made peace
with the Iroquois |
| 1698 |
Violent conflict Illinois
Confederacy |
| 1707 |
Final expulsion from South
Carolina after defeat by the Catawba, most went to Pennsylvania, others
to Tennessee, and still others would eventually join the Creek
Confederacy; Cumberland Shawnee began trading with the French and
allowed Charleville to establish a trading post near present Nashville |
| 1715 |
Cherokee and Chickasaw joined to
defeat the Cumberland Shawnee, some joined the Creek, others move north
to Kentucky |
| 1737 |
Delaware and Shawnee lost their
lands in eastern Pennsylvania, both tribes removed to western
Pennsylvania and later Ohio though one Shawnee band went south |
| 1746 |
Southern band made peace with
the Cherokee and settled in the Cumberland Basin |
| 1754 |
Start of French and Indian War
marked the start of constant hostilities with Whites |
| 1755 |
British hanged a peaceful
delegation of Shawnee and Delaware; Shawnee and Delaware killed 2,500
colonists over the next two years |
| 1756 |
Cumberland Shawnee attacked by
Chickasaw, most removed to Ohio |
| 1758 |
Remaining Cumberland Shawnee
joined others in Ohio via western Pennsylvania |
| 1759 |
Peace with the British, raids
against colonists stopped |
| 1760 |
760 British prisoners exchanged
but about half opted to remain with the Shawnee and Delaware |
| 1762 |
Treaty at Lancaster quickly
betrayed by British by building Fort Pitt and a garrison of 200 men |
| 1763 |
Pontiac's Rebellion resulted in
the capturing of six or nine forts west of the Appalachians; Shawnee,
Delaware, and Mingo besieged Fort Pitt ultimately killing 600 settlers;
smallpox epidemic may have been intentionally introduced; Col. Henry
Bouquet defeated the Shawnee, Delaware, and Mingo in a two-day battle at
Bushy Run. |
| 1770 |
650 Kispoko and Piqua Shawnee
left Ohio and headed to settle in Spanish Missouri; Michael Cresap and a
group of vigilantes attacked a Shawnee trading party near Wheeling
killing a chief |
| 1773 |
Shawnee killed Daniel Boone's
son; Large groups of Shawnee had left Ohio in and settled in southeast
Missouri |
| 1774 |
50 frontiesmen west of
Appalachians; Cherokee had sold their rights to Kentucky; Shawnee
suffered heavy losses in Lord Dunmore's War Chief Cornstalk later signed
Treay of Camp Charlotte relinquishing claims south of Ohio; Hathawekela
Shawnee had left Ohio and moved to the Upper Creek in northern Alabama |
| 1776 |
Shawnee and Cherokee war parties
roamed through Kentucky killing settlers; Shawnee/Cherokee war party
captured Daniel Boone's daughter and two friends, rescued after three
days, reprisals followed |
| 1777 |
Chief Cornstalk went to Fort
Randolf (Point Pleasant) to warn that the Shawnee were going over to the
British but ungrateful soldiers murdered Cornstalk; Cornstalk replaced
by the more militant Blackfish; Ft. Henry (Wheeling) attacked by 400
Shawnee who burned settlement; Simon Girty deserted Continental Army and
fought with Shawnee; Blackfish and Half King and 300 Shawnee attacked Fort
Randolf |
| 1779 |
300 mounted Kentucky Volunteers
crossed into Ohio and burned Old Chilicothe and killed Bal; Kispoko and
Piqua had returned to Ohio but soon left for Spanish Louisiana; Large
groups of Shawnee had left Ohio in and settled in southeast Missouri |
| 1780 |
George Rogers Clark
attacked Shawnee villages on Mad River taking only seven prisoners |
| 1793 |
Baron de Carondelet,
the Spanish governor of Louisiana, gave the Missouri Shawnee a 25 mile
square land grant near Cape Girardeau, Shawnee unwilling to accept the
Greenville treaty joined them |
| 1795 |
Hathawekela left the
Creek in Alabama and immigrated to Spanish Louisiana |
| 1800 |
Hathawekela,
Kispokotha, and Piqua were in Missouri, and only the Chillicothe and
Mequachake remained in Ohio |
| 1801 |
Tecumseh had located
his village on the deserted grounds of Fort Greenville |
| 1802 |
Shawnee attacked a
large Kaskaskia (Illinois) hunting party dealing heavy losses |
| 1805 |
A Shawnee drunk
named Lalawethika (Tecumseh's brother) underwent an spiritual awakening
in which he received a religious vision and declared himself a prophet;
anyone who disagreed with him or were Christians were likely to be
killed as a witch or traitor; Tecumseh added a political element to his
brother's religion: an alliance of all tribes to halt the surrender of
land to the Americans |
| 1808 |
Tecumseh had
assembled almost 3,000 warriors, from different tribes, ready to fight
American expansion |
| 1811 |
Tecumseh left for
the south to try to recruit the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Cherokee.
Before leaving, he gave his brother specific instructions that, during
his absence, he was to avoid any confrontation with the Americans; soon
after Tecumseh left, the Prophet ignored his brother's orders and
decided to kill Harrison with a suicide squad with the ensuing battle
ended in a draw, but the Americans lost 62 killed and 126 wounded, he
warriors withdrew, and Harrison burned Prophetstown; the result was
Tecumseh's alliance was in shambles |
| 1812 |
War of 1812 began;
Tecumseh with 800 warriors and 300 Canadians caused American Gen Hull to
surrender without a fight at Detroit; the victory at Detroit brought
more warriors to Tecumseh and set off a series of raids against American
forts and settlements across the frontier as far west as Missouri |
| 1813 |
900 Kentucky militia
commanded by General James Winchester was ambushed on the Raisin River
by Shawnee in southeast Michigan with 300 killed, 50 prisoners were
murdered as British watched, newly arriving Tecumseh stopped further
slaughter; Tecumseh was killed late in the afternoon of October 6th,
1813 by Harrison's command, united Native American resistance to
American expansion died with him |
| 1815 |
Tensquatawa remained
in Canada, but most of his followers made peace with the Americans at
Indian Springs and returned to Ohio; several hundred Missouri Shawnee
and Delaware left the United States and moved to Texas |
| 1817 |
Ceded Ohio lands for
Missouri reservations in Ft. Meigs Treaty |
| 1821 |
Ceded Missouri lands
for lands in eastern Kansas; Black Bob's band went south and settled in
Arkansas |
| 1826 |
Black Hoof's band of
200 left Ohio for a two year trip to Kansas which was a horror tale |
| 1831 |
400 Shawnee at
Wapaughkonetta and Hog Creek ceded their Ohio lands in exchange for
100,000 acres of the Shawnee Reserve in Kansas |
| 1833 |
Black Bob's band
removed to Olathe, Kansas |
| 1837 |
85 Shawnee
volunteered as scouts for the American army against the Florida Seminole |
| 1839 |
Shawnee and Cherokee
expelled from Texas by a military force |
| 1845 |
A large group of
traditional Shawnee left the Kansas reserve and joined the Absentee near
present-day Shawnee, Oklahoma |
| 1854 |
Kansas-Nebraska Act,
Most Shawnee sold Kansas territories for Oklahoma tracts; lost much of
their lands to squatters and fraud |
| 1861 |
Most Shawnee served
in Union Army in Civil War; Kansas statehood |
| 1862 |
Kansas Shawnee and
Delaware attacked the Confederate Wichita Agency in Oklahoma |
| 1864 |
Kansas legislature
called for the removal of all Indians from Kansas |
| 1867 |
Removal of Indian
from Kansas essentially completed |
| 1869 |
Congress finally
approved the sale of the Kansas lands which had been reserved for the
Absentee Shawnee |
