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Shawnee2

Pronunciation: /ʃɔːˈniː/
Definition of Shawnee

noun (plural same or Shawnees)

  • 1a member of an American Indian people living formerly in the eastern US and now chiefly in Oklahoma.
  • 2 [mass noun] the Algonquian language of the Shawnee, now with few speakers.

adjective

  • relating to the Shawnee or their language.

Origin:

the name in Delaware

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