_D. G. Brinton, The Shawnees and their Migrations (History Magazine, volume 10, 1866)_. {103} "The Shawanese, whose villages were on the western bank [of the Susquehanna] came into the valley [of Wyoming] from their former localities, at the 'forks of the Delaware' (the junction of the Delaware and Lehigh, at Easton), to which point they had been induced at some remote period to emigrate from their earlier home, near the mouth of the river Wabash, in the 'Ohio region,' upon the invitation of the Delawares. This was Indian diplomacy, for the Delawares were desirous (not being upon the most friendly terms with the Mingos, or Six Nations) to accumulate a force against those powerful neighbors. But, as might be expected, they did not long live in peace with their new allies. ... The Shawanese [about 1755, or soon after] were driven out of the valley by their more powerful neighbors, the Delawares, and the conflict which resulted in their leaving it grew out of, or was precipitated by, a very trifling incident. While the warriors of the Delawares were engaged upon the mountains in a hunting expedition, a number of squaws or female Indians from Maughwauwame were gathering wild fruits along the margin of the river below the town, where they found a number of Shawanese squaws and their children, who had crossed the river in their canoes upon the same business. A child belonging to the Shawanese having taken a large grasshopper, a quarrel arose among the children for the possession of it, in which their mothers soon took part. ... The quarrel became general. ... Upon the return of the warriors both tribes prepared for battle. ... The Shawanese ... were not able to sustain the conflict, and, after the loss of about half their tribe, the remainder were forced to flee to their own side of the river, shortly after which they abandoned their town and removed to the Ohio." This war between the Delawares and Shawanese has been called the Grasshopper War. _L. H. Miner, The Valley of Wyoming, page 32._ See, also, above, ALGONQUIAN FAMILY, and DELAWARES See, also, PONTIAC'S WAR; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1765-1768; For an account of "Lord Dunmore's War", See OHIO (VALLEY): A. D. 1774. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Sheepeaters (Tukuarika). See below: SHOSHONEAN FAMILY. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Sheyennes. See above: ALGONQUIAN FAMILY. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Shoshonean Family.