. Bulletin. Ethnology. SHAWNEE MAN did not refer to the Shawnee, and was evi- dently not a proper tribal designation, but merely the collective term, "southern- ers," for those tribes southward from Manhattan id., just as Wappanoos, "east- erners," was the collective term for those living toward the e. Evelin, who wrote about 1646, gives the names of the differ- ent small bands in the s. part of New Jer- sey, while Ruttenber names those in the N., V)ut neither mentions the Shawnee. The tradition of the Delawares, as em- bodied in the Walum Olnm, makes them- selves, the Shaw
. Bulletin. Ethnology. SHAWNEE MAN did not refer to the Shawnee, and was evi- dently not a proper tribal designation, but merely the collective term, "southern- ers," for those tribes southward from Manhattan id., just as Wappanoos, "east- erners," was the collective term for those living toward the e. Evelin, who wrote about 1646, gives the names of the differ- ent small bands in the s. part of New Jer- sey, while Ruttenber names those in the N., V)ut neither mentions the Shawnee. The tradition of the Delawares, as em- bodied in the Walum Olnm, makes them- selves, the Shawnee, and the Nanticoke, originally one people, the separation hav- ing taken place after the traditional ex- pulsion of theTalligewi (Cherokee, q. v.) from the N., it being stated that the Shawnee wentS. Beyond thisitis useless to theorize on the origin of the Shawnee or to strive to them any earlier loca- tion than that in which they were first known and where their oldest traditions place them—the Cumberland basin in Ten- nessee, with an outlying colony on the middle Savannah in South Carolina. In this position, as their name may imply, they were the southern advance guard of the Algonquian stock. Their real history begins in 1669-70. They were then living in two bodies at a consid- erable distance apart, and these two di- visions were not fully united until nearly a century later, when the tribe settled in Ohio. The attempt to reconcile con- flicting statements without a knowledge of this fact has occasioned much of the confusion in regard to the Shawnee. The apparent anomaly of a tribe living in two divisions at such a distance from each other is explained when we remember that the intervening territory was occu- pied by the Cherokee, who were at that time the friends of the Shawnee. The evidence afforded by the mounds shows that the two tribes lived together for a considerable period, both in South Caro- lina and in Tennessee, and it is a matter of history that t
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