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i just finished reading this book and an excellent read it was --- i did not know much about the tribe, the main impression being they were the ones who were always attacking davy crockett and daniel boone on the teevee in the 1950s ---

the shawnee were in georgia as early as the late seventeenth century, mostly near the falls of the savannah river --- they were able to take advantage of a more mobile lifestyle, especially since the shawnee language was a sort of lingua franca all across eastern north america --- one eighteenth century trader called the language "fine, smooth, and easy to be got" ---

i've heard that suwanee, northeast of Atlanta, was a shawnee village in the eighteenth century