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But leaders of the Shawnee Tribe and the Eastern Shawnees, both now based in Oklahoma, like the Delawares, said they hadn’t had any discussions about it.

Nobody knew how the Shawnees’ chief was slain in the War of 1812, but Johnson’s campaign slogan was, “Rumpsey, Dumpsey. Johnson Killed Tecumseh.”

During what became known as “Lord Dunmore’s War,” the Shawnees battled enemy forces that wanted to wipe them from the face of the earth.

Without elaboration, Feldman writes: “He called the Shawnees a ‘perfidious people’ and considered all Indians to be savages.”

The Shawnees or Shawanoes are an erratic tribe of Algonkin stock, supposed to have been one primarily with the Kickapoos.