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The Chalahgawtha was essentially the northern sept of the Shawnee, which along with the Thawegila (southern Shawnee), were "keepers of the council fire", controlling much of the political affairs of the tribe, including the relations of the tribe with the British and Americans.

The village was an important political and trading center in the Ohio Country. The Shawnee had returned to the area of present-day Ohio and West Virginia in the early 18th century after having been previously driven from the region by the Iroquois around 1660 during the Beaver Wars.

The village was the birth place in 1768 of Tecumseh, who later led an unsuccessful war of Native Americans against the Americans during the War of 1812. At the time, the village was located along the banks of the Little Miami RiverThe Little Miami River (also called the Little Miami Scenic River is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 160 mi (257 km) long, in southwestern Ohio in the United States. It joins the Ohio River east of Cincinnati, and is named for the Miami, an A near modern-day XeniaXenia is a city in Greene County, Ohio, near Dayton. As of the 2000 census, the city had a population of 24,164. It is the county seat of Greene County 6. On April 3, 1974, approximately half the city was destroyed when an F5 tornado hit during The Super, Ohio .

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The village was abandoned after 1817Events March 4 James Monroe succeeds James Madison as the President of the United States of America April Earthquake in Palermo, Italy April 3 Princess Caraboo appears in Almondsbury in Gloucestershire, England July 4 At Rome, New York, construction on th with the signing of the Fort Meigs Treaty in which the Shawnee, greatly weakened and reduced in number in Ohio, agreed to relinquish their remaining lands in Ohio for reservation lands west of the Mississippi River.