The Shawnee, Shaawanwaki, Shaawanooki and Shaawanowi lenaweeki, are an Algonquian-speaking people native to North America. Historically they inhabited the areas of Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, Western Maryland, Kentucky, Indiana, and Pennsylvania. Today there are three federally recognized Shawnee tribes: Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and Shawnee Tribe, all of which are headquartered in Oklahoma.
Many thousands of years ago groups known as Paleo-Indians lived in what today is referred to as the American Midwest. These groups were hunter-gatherers who hunted a wide range of animals, including the megafauna, which became extinct following the end of the Pleistocene age. Scholars believe that Paleo-Indians were specialized, highly mobile foragers who hunted late Pleistocene fauna such as bison, mastodons, caribou, and mammoths.
Some scholars believe that the Shawnee are descendants of the people of the prehistoric Fort Ancient culture of the Ohio country, although this is not universally accepted. Fort Ancient flourished from 1000 to 1650 among a people who predominantly inhabited land along the Ohio River in areas of southern modern-day Ohio, northern Kentucky and western West Virginia. The Fort Ancient culture was once thought to have been an expansion of the Mississippian culture. Scholars now believe it developed independently and was descended from the Hopewell culture (100 BCE – 500 CE), also a mound builder people.
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Shawnee is a slick drug dealer who just got out of prison. He plans to get back in the fast lane by robbing, and selling the stolen items. He meets a man who is tending the church garden and does not know that he is really the pastor of the church. He tries to sell him stolen items, while the pastor reaches out to him. Later he burglarizes the church. What happens when the pastor is confronted with this thief and finds out that he is also the man who sold his son the drugs that took his son's life.
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Driving to a wedding in Los Angeles through the Mojave Desert, Paul and Adrienne pull off the highway and into Roy's Motel and Cafe. This roadside artifact proves to be a strange and surreal place with an unsettling mix of travelers, who force our couple to discover the secret hidden between.
Keywords: adultery, african-american, bible, black-man, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, cafe, car-accident, cheating-wife, dark-secret, diner
Sins will beget sins.
Bring out the truth.
Frank: [about his girl friend] She's good. Like purity.::Paul: Most nurses are.
The Man: One in 11 million versus 1 in 5000. I would fly.
The Man: Introspection is good. That's were the truth exists.::Paul: What about you?::The Man: Me? I made some mistakes, and danced with the Devil. Have you?::Paul: I don't believe in the Devil, and I sure as hell don't dance.
Paul: Who the fuck are you?::The Man: I'm the son of God. Who the fuck are you?
Paul: You're Frank's wife, huh?::Sandy: Unfortunately.
The Man: What you did that night changed the course of multiple lives. It caused some far-reaching devastation. Mortal facts transgressed against divine law.
[last lines]::The Man: You're free to go.::Paul: Go where?::The Man: Somewhere better than here. [walking away]::Paul: Hey, I don't understand.::The Man: You made the right choice.
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Winner of the 2004 HBO Short Film Award at the American Black Film Festival, TIME OUT offers a chapter in the life of Lauren Martin, a precocious nine-year old dealing with life after the lost of her mother. A confrontation with a jealous classmate triggers a domino effect which eventually puts her face to face with a decision that will forever change the road on which she must choose to follow.
When there's no place to run...
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It's the first Christmas without Grandma and a difficult time for the family, until Grandpa (James Earl Jones - Star Wars, Field of Dreams) decides to share a story with his ten-year-old grandson Terence. It's the story of Santa and Pete, a tale that has been handed down for generations.
Keywords: based-on-novel, christmas
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A reverend, Will Smythe, and his followers are chased out of town after Smythe is accused of adultery and polygamy. Joined by a rugged woodsman, Marion Dalton, who wants his cheating wife, the group ventures into a valley, where dwells an ancient evil spirit. As members of the group start to disappear, the witch-bred, insane Leah must discover how to thwart the spirit.
Keywords: demon, folklore, forest, ghost, haunting, independent-film, native-american, occult, satanism, spell
When America was young and Spirits of Evil reigned in a Forest of Darkness.
The Secret is sleeping in the trees
Sinister evil is waiting in the woods.
Will Smythe: Please let's us take the generous town's providings, but the Lord giveth that he take it away. This is a good town, I only hope that all you good people could come with me... to the promised land.
Will Smythe: [after Will goes out and sees that his books have all been torn up and pages scattered all over the camp] Goddamn Barbarians!::Jewell Buchanan: [while watching Will have a spaz] How did they get in?::Will Smythe: Goddamn good question! You people just let them walk right in? The bloody cretins! The best minds of you are... Goddamn, Goddamn , Goddamn them!
Eloise Dalton: She's crazier than a rat in a brandy keg!
Shawnee when you gonna come back
Shawnee when you gonna settle down
We were all talking at the family picnic
Eating fried chicken sitting on a blanket
Shawnee you don't know how I miss you
Shawnee I just wanna be with you
You know my creepy cousin with the handlebar mustache
He opened up a cold one and he sat on my lap
Shawnee in only you had been there
Shawnee he would've got his own chair
Shawnee when you gonna come home
Shawnee I'm just feeling so alone
You know my creepy cousin with the handlebar mustache
He opened up a cold one and he sat down on my lap
Shawnee if only you had been there