Shawnees \Shaw`nees"\, n. pl.; sing. {Shawnee}. (Ethnol.) A tribe of North American Indians who occupied Western New York and part of Ohio, but were driven away and widely dispersed by the Iroquois.
Shawnee n 1: a member of the Algonquian people formerly living along the Tennessee river 2: the Algonquian language spoken by the Shawnee people