Colin Calloway pays tribute to Shawnee tribe

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   Shawnees resisted American encroachment and fought both the British and Americans for generations in the Midwest. This powerful tribe was one of the most vocal opponents to American expansionist and tried the best for the needed Indian unity to resist land grabbing settlers and their atrocities to them and the lands. Colin Calloway is a man of great pen who has written many Indian books and the latest one I caught was called " The Shawnees And The war For America". This book gives a brief synopsis of the Shawnee tribe and the numerous battles and resistance to the British/Americans through the centuries. I will look for more great history and native American books to promote from this great father.  readers can learn much of the ways of the Shawnees and of many of their great leaders who loved the Ohio and Missouri lands and treated the forests with great respect but were eventually overwhelmed and compelled to leave these soils of their ancestors. The resilience of this powerful tribe that refused to compromise with the evil invaders from Europe is detailed in great account in this interesting and quick short work by Mr Calloway. Most Americans cant tell the difference and don't know the difference between tribes whether they be Pawnee nor Shawnee and the great history authors such as this man will always detail each individual tribe and their role in diplomatic and romantic visions that shaped the North American continent. The Shawnees were angered by the role of the six nation Iroquois confederacy of selling their lands to the Americans and refused to accept these treaties where their powerful tribe had no say.  the Shawnees main enemies were White Kentuckians and Virginias who the Shawnee considered the savage as the cruelty of the frontiersmen often inflamed Native resistance in a brutal tit for tat raiding and frontier warfare that cemented perpetual hostility. technology enabled the Americans to win many of these fights and as massive immigration swelled numbers the Indians were eventually pushed West being unable to get their allies the British to guarantee independent Native Indian country following the war of 1812. A Shawnee named Tecumseh traveled into many countries trying to form unity with the Cherokees and Kickapoos among others to have one last real stand in the old Northwest. Indian defeat in this regard did much more to shape this nation than any Louisiana purchase and this book among others tells the sad tale of the Shawnee.