|14,000 (7,584 enrolled)| |Regions with significant populations|
traditional beliefs and Christianity |Related ethnic groups| The
Shawnee (Shaawanwaki, Ša˙wano˙ki and Shaawanowi lenaweeki) are
an Algonquian-speaking people native to North America.
Historically they inhabited the areas of present-day Ohio,
Virginia, West Virginia, Western Maryland, Kentucky, Indiana,
and Pennsylvania in the United States. Today there are three
federally recognized Shawnee tribes: Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of
Indians of Oklahoma, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and
Shawnee Tribe, all of which are headquartered in Oklahoma. Many
thousands of years ago groups known as Paleo-Indians lived in
what today is referred to as the American Midwest. These groups
were hunter-gatherers who hunted a wide range of animals,
including the megafauna, which became extinct following the end
of the Pleistocene age. Scholars believe that Paleo-Indians were
specialized, highly mobile foragers who hunted late Pleistocene
fauna such as bison, mastodons