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SHAWANOE.
"ALTHOUGH the Shawanoes have
been known to us since the year 1680, yet we possess no correct
information concerning their previous history. The Sauks and Foxes,
western tribes of the Algonquin-
Lenape family, relate that the
Shawanoes were originally of the same stock as themselves, but that after-
wards migrating to the southward, they became separated from the rest of
their kindred. This account
is corroborated by the import of the word Shawanoe, which signifies
south, and likewise by the situation
of the Shawanoe settlements; for in all the ancient
French maps this people is invariably
represented
as dwelling on the south of the Ohio, and as extending in a southwardly
direction to the Cumberland
River. They were driven from that territory, probably by the
Cherokees, during the first half of
the
sixteenth century. They crossed the Ohio, and we afterwards hear of
them as the active allies of the
French during the seven years' war, and as the fierce opponents of America
during the war of indepen-
dence. They are now much dispersed: the greater part of them have
removed west of the Mississippi,
and the number of these amounts to about 1500 individuals.
The
Gospel of St.
Matthew has been translated
into Shawanoe, probably by the Baptist mies.
The translation was compared with the
Greek text by J. A. Chute, M. D.; and an
edition was
printed, in 1836, at the Shawanoe Baptist Mission-press, Indian territory.
Sixteen pages of hymns
were added by Mr. Lykins, and printed with this edition; but no
further translations of any portion
of Scripture appear to have been effected." --The Bible of Every Land.
(1860, Second Edition) Samuel Bagster [Info only]
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