More important Shawnee history

A comment made on a recent post reminded me of a very important subject in Shawnee history.

One story made by a Cherokee Chief in 1772 is part of the accepted history of the Shawnee. But two maps debunk this Cherokee’s story. The Chief said that 100 years earlier, the Shawnee were removed from the Savannah River, and with permission from the Cherokee, sent to the Cumberland River, or as it was known before the time of Dr. Thomas Walker , the Shawnee River.

This map dated before 1682 was discovered in the deep confines of the Library of Congress.

Translation: River the old ones Chaouanons (Shawnee) (ainh) Translation unknown Named Because the Shawnee inhabited formerly.

 The Cumberland River or Shawnee River was inhabited by ancient Shawnee, not a band of Shawnee who were allowed to live there by the Cherokee. It also shows the major Indian village of Les Tongoria along the banks of the Ohio River in Kentucky of all places. This can’t be, because we are supposed to be a simple hunting ground. By the time Europeans began to pure into Kentucky we were a hunting ground as a result of disease and war.

The Shawnee’s oldest traditions place them along the banks of the Cumberland River from the headwaters in modern day Harlan County to Nashville.

If that is not enough for you here is another map showing two flourishing Shawnee villages in 1665.

The beast you see on this map from 1665 could be showing the relative location of Big Bone Lick, many mastodon bones have been found there. But some early Lexington history tells of big bones being found there as well. But most importantly it shows the town I believe to be Eskippakithiki or as it is known today Indian Old Fields in modern day Clark County. And guess what? It has NEVER been properly studied or even touched. Thank GOD the locals will chew your ass if you attempt to excavate it illegally.

The absence of the Cumberland River on this map could indicate yet another Kentucky Indian town around the Cumberland Gap region.

Kentucky history still refuses, in most cases, to show evidence of major inhabitation of Kentucky at the time period when no one was supposed to have lived here. Kentucky is 2^nd most, I believe, in the number of protected Indian mounds, in the Nation. But no Indians lived here according to many historical publications and especially in the Indian community outside of Kentucky. All that will change soon.

Comments

[Sheryl Hartman]

I was very interested in the maps. I have Shawnee ancestors and would like to know the details of the maps used here. Is thre a way to see the entire maps and who made them? I would like to prove to the world that the Shawnee were in the Ohio Valley, Kentucky and West Virginia long before Europeans arrived and were there just prior to the Iroquois wars. The Piasa like monster in the second map is very similar to the one painted on the bank of the Mississippi River.