SHAWNEES
"It will be observed that, whereas, the historic period began in the Iroquois and Huron country before 1600 and started in the upper Great Lakes region before 1640, in the Ohio Valley prehistory times continued until near the end of the seventeenth century. ... that neither the French in Canada nor the English along the Atlantic coast ... recorded any definite information ... and that the archaeologists ... have failed to connect any known tribes with these village ruins, mounds and cemeteries.
"They [archaeologists] have made just one tentative attempt by stating that probably the Shawnees had villages at Madisonville (Cincinnati) at the end of the prehistoric period, about 1665-1670, and they have this view mainly on their having found a few handfuls of glass beads and small metal objects of European manufacture in graves at this location." (Hyde 1962 p.144)
Comment: "Handfuls of glass beads and small metal objects of European manufacture" also describes the evidence found by Plummet's research on longhouses of Ungava Bay. Women, especially, would conserve, carry, and pass down glass beads and small metal objects. Some of those women may have been Norse people who walked the Frozen Trail to Ungava. Then three and a quarter centuries later their descendants may have been buried at Cincinnati.
