Shawnee

Many Indian tribes claimed Kentucky as hunting territory in the eighteenth century, though for the most part they had their villages elsewhere. For the Shawnee, whose homeland was in the Ohio and Cumberland valleys, Kentucky was an essential source of game and the skins and furs for trade. When Daniel Boone explored Kentucky in 1769, a band of Shawnee warned him they would not tolerate the presence of whites there. Until 1794 and the Battle of the Fallen Timber, settlers were to remember the warning. The bitter struggle between whites and Shawnee for possession of Kentucky left its mark in the legends of the state.Clark, Jerry E. is the author of 'Shawnee ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780813191805 and ISBN 0813191807.