History of South America

What Indian tribe lived in west Virginia?

The Shawnee (or Shaawanwa in their native tongue) were an Eastern Algonquian-speaking Native American people who lived originally in the Ohio Valley and were closely associated with the Miami, Sauk, and Fox, speaking a language related also to the more distant Kickapoo, Potawatomi, Peoria, Mascouten, and Illiniwek peoples.

The Shawnee were initially centered around the Cumberland Valley in southern Pennsylvania, but eventually inhabited much of the Ohio Valley and the present-day states of West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma, as well as small pockets in Alabama and Georgia.