Request for Question Clarification by
byrd-ga
on
09 Jul 2003 15:09 PDT
Hello,
Well, looks like this is going to be a tough one. There appear to be
several conflicting accounts of the emigration of a portion of the
Shawnee from Ohio to Kansas. One says that Tensquatawa the Prophet,
brother of the great chief Tecumseh, led a band of about 200 Shawnee
from Ohio to Kansas, but that this was resisted by the current chief,
Black Hoof, with the majority of Shawnee remaining in Ohio. But
another account says that it was Black Hoof who led a band of 250 to
Kansas in the same year, 1826. Although theses two accounts agree on
the year, and on the fact that this migration was a horrendously
difficult and tragic affair for those involved. there are other
stories of other migrations of Shawnee people from Ohio to Kansas.
For example, in one place it states that a further 400 Shawnee ceded
their lands in Ohio for lands in Kansas following Black Hoof's death
in 1831.
In any case, it does not appear at this time that there exists a
definitive roll of those involved in either/any of migrations. The
closest I could come is a listing of Shawnee names of the 1700s, which
combined with an 1871 census might yield a composite from which could
be extracted the most likely.
I did run across a page put up by a very well studied expert on
Shawnee history, who is currently working on an as yet incomplete page
about the various migrations of the tribes. It may be that this
person has information that is not yet searchable online elsewhere.
If any of this information would suffice as an answer, please let me
know and i'll be glad to post it. If not, and you'd prefer to keep
looking on your own, you might try using the terms:
shawnee emigration record names
Shawnee "ohio to kansas" names records
Shawnee relocation OR migration OR emigration
Best wishes,
--Byrd
