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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Fort Ancient culture, Shawnee, Serpent Mound, Wickliffe Mounds, Hardin Village Site, Turpin Site, Portsmouth Earthworks, Feurt Mounds and Village Site, Clough Creek and Sand Ridge Archeological District, Massacre at Ywahoo Falls, Slack Farm, Clover Site, Lower Shawneetown, Southern Cherokee Nation of Kentucky, State Line Archeological District, Cleek-McCabe Site, Alligator Effigy Mound, Hansen Site, Hobson Site, Buffalo Indian Village Site, Ronald Watson Gravel Site, Rowlandton Mound Site, SunWatch Indian Village, Turk Site, Twin Mounds Site, Tolu Site, Moorehead Circle, Red Bird River Shelter Petroglyphs, Bone Stone Graves, Bone Mound II, Buckner Site, Muir Site, Clarke Farm Site, Leo Petroglyph, East Fork Site, Fox Farm Site, Mariemont Embankment and Village Site, Upper Mississippian culture, Shannon, Kentucky, Thompson Site, Hahn Field Archeological District, Cox Site, Chenoweth Massacre, Eskippathiki. Excerpt: The Shawnee, Shaawanwaki, Shaawanooki and Shaawanowi lenaweeki, are an Algonquian-speaking people native to North America. Historically they inhabited the areas of Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, Western Maryland, Kentucky, Indiana, and Pennsylvania. Today there are three federally recognized Shawnee tribes: Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and Shawnee Tribe, all of which are headquartered in Oklahoma. Many thousands of years ago groups known as Paleo-Indians lived in what today is referred to as the American Midwest. These groups were hunter-gatherers who hunted a wide range of animals, including the megafauna, which became extinct following the end of the Pleistocene age. Scholars believe that Paleo-Indians were specialized, highly mobile foragers who hunted late Pleistocene fauna such as bison, mastodons, caribou, and mammoths. Fort Ancient Monongahela cul...
