Tecumseh was a Shawnee warrior/war leader, perhaps the greatest military mind the United States has produced. He wasn’t the only Shawnee warrior. My great-grandmother on my mother’s side, Evalina Greenfield Pait, was about one quarter Shawnee. Some Shawnee lived in Tullytown, 25 miles northeast of Louisville. Their descendants still live a few miles north of Charlestown, Indiana where my paternal grandfather was from. His family was Cherokee, but they surely intermarried with Shawnee.
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