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The Shawnee by Jerry E. Clark (review)

Originally published in 1993, The Shawnee is a brief but useful historical ethnography of the Shawnee Indians, one of the principal Native American nations of the early Ohio Valley. In its nine topical chapters, author Jerry Clark (an anthropologist at Creighton University) discusses, among other subjects, the Shawnees’ economic culture, social structure, religious beliefs, and relationships with Euro-Americans. The most distinctive feature of the Shawnee, as Clark portrays them, was their geographical dispersion, which began well before Andrew Jackson’s Removal program made this a common experience for the Woodland Indians. Originating in the Ohio Valley, the Shawnee began their outmigration in the seventeenth century, drawn to distant lands by trading opportunities and by other Indian nations’ offers of military alliance. During the next century the Shawnee established communities in present-day Tennessee, Alabama, Ohio, Illinois, South Carolina (where they were known as Savannahs), Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Missouri. The Shawnee nation also maintained a substantial presence in Kentucky—more substantial than most historians and Kentuckians may realize. Establishing the strength of the Shawnees’ connection to the Jerry E. Clark. The Shawnee. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. 120 pp. ISBN: 9780813191805 (paper), $18.00. The Shawnee