a member of the Algonquian people formerly living along the Tennessee river
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the Algonquian language spoken by the Shawnee
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Shawnees \Shaw`nees"\, n. pl.; sing. {Shawnee}. (Ethnol.) A tribe of North American Indians who occupied Western New York and part of Ohio, but were driven away and widely dispersed by the Iroquois.
"We may hand out tickets, or we may bring a paddy wagon up there and haul them away," Norbert Boe, acting forest supervisor of the Shawnee National Forest, said Sunday.
The four Americans, who are based in the northeastern province of Nakhon Phanom bordering Laos, are members of "Homecoming II," a private MIA-POW group based in Shawnee Mission, Kan.
At least 10 homes were damaged near Topeka and power lines were down in other parts of Shawnee and Jefferson counties.
Neither Hibbard Brown officials in New York nor Mr. Nelson in Shawnee could immediately be reached for comment.
New restrictions on the way loggers harvest timber in the vast Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois has given environmentalists hope that others will follow suit.