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.
Shawnee
n 1: a member of the Algonquian people formerly living along the
Tennessee river
2: the Algonquian language spoken by the Shawnee people