Question: Tracy Ann DeMeyer was an author descending from what Algonquian-speaking North American native ethnic group?

full_context: Document 1: Trace DeMeyer: Trace A. DeMeyer, also known as Tracy Ann DeMeyer or Laura Jean Thrall-Bland, (b. 1956) is a multi-genre author, artist, poet and journalist of Shawnee-Cherokee descent. Her writing is mainly focused on Native Americans and Native American adoption issues.
Document 2: Tracy Newman: Tracy Ann Newman is an American television producer, writer and musician. Newman is a founding member of the improvisational theater troupe The Groundlings (as is her sister, Laraine Newman). She was co-creator and executive producer of the 2001-09 sitcom "According to Jim". She is also a singer-songwriter, as well as an original member of The New Christy Minstrels and lead singer of Tracy Newman and The Reinforcements. She is the mother of artist/writer Charlotte Dean, with whom she co-directs the live comedy show "Charlotte's Shorts".
Document 3: Louise Erdrich: Louise Erdrich (born Karen Louise Erdrich, June 7, 1954) is an American author, writer of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, a band of the Anishinaabe (also known as Ojibwe and Chippewa).
Document 4: Wea: The Wea were a Miami-Illinois-speaking Native American tribe originally located in western Indiana, closely related to the Miami Tribe. The name "Wea" is used today as the a shortened version of their numerous recorded names. The Wea name for themselves (autonym) in their own language is "waayaahtanwa", derived from "waayaahtanonki", 'place of the whirlpool', their name where they were first recorded being seen and is where they were living at that time. The different spellings of their name is numerous, as they were made by different settlers from different language and educational backgrounds. One French version is "Ouiatenon"; another "Ouiateno"; there were Wea villages, whose sites are now known as Lafayette and Terre Haute, Indiana, respectively. In 2004 the Indiana Historical Bureau installed a marker commemorating the Wea Village in Terre Haute and its living descendants. The Wea spoke a dialect of Miami, the same language as the Miami Tribe, both from the Algonquian languages.
Document 5: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, also known as Bamewawagezhikaquay (January 31, 1800 – May 22, 1842) is the first known American Indian literary writer. She was of Ojibwa and Scots-Irish ancestry. Her Ojibwa name can also be written as "O-bah-bahm-wawa-ge-zhe-go-qua" ("Obabaamwewe-giizhigokwe" in modern spelling), meaning "Woman of the Sound [that the stars make] Rushing Through the Sky." She lived most of her life in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.
Document 6: Jean Lacy: Jean Lacy is a museum education specialist and visual artist who works primarily in mixed media and collage from Washington, D.C. She is of African American heritage, and believes her family is descended from indentured Africans at Jamestown Colony. Her work is inspired by creation myths and religious stories, the Civil Rights Movement, and African American culture. From 1975-77 she held the position of Curator of Education and Exhibitions at the Museum of African-American Life and Culture in Dallas, Texas. From 1977-88 she served as the Director of the African American Cultural Heritage Center of the Dallas Independent School District.
Document 7: Shawnee Land, Virginia: Shawnee Land is a planned community in Frederick County, Virginia, United States. Shawnee Land is located on the eastern slopes of Great North Mountain. The Census Bureau defines it as a census-designated place (listed as Shawneeland) with a population of 1,873 as of 2010. In its past, Shawnee Land was a ski resort with a number of slopes located on the eastern side of Great North Mountain. Shawnee Land thrived for a few years, but eventually the investors abandoned the project and the ski slopes were closed due to the proximity of the bigger, nearby, Bryce Mountain Ski Resort.
Document 8: Choctaw: The Choctaw (In the Choctaw language, Chahta) are a Native American people originally occupying what is now the Southeastern United States (modern-day Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana). Their Choctaw language belongs to the Muskogean language family group.
Document 9: Ridgetop Shawnee: The Ridgetop Shawnee Tribe of Indians descend from southeastern Kentucky's early multiracial settlers of 1790-1870. Their ancestors migrated to the central Appalachian region in the late 18th to mid 19th centuries. The Ridgetop Shawnee Tribe of Indians are the only Native American tribe to have been recognized and honored by a body of the Kentucky General Assembly. In 2009 and 2010, resolutions by the State House of the Kentucky General Assembly recognized the Ridgetop Shawnee Tribe of Indians for their care of their children and elderly, and their work to preserve their culture and Native American heritage in the region, including prehistoric sites. In June 2013 the Pine Mountain Indian Community, LLC, announced that the Ridgetop Shawnee Tribe of Indians would become the heritage arm of this nonprofit organization. Within this new management structure the Ridgetop Shawnee Tribe of Indians will concentrate more on the heritage of the region while the Pine Mountain Indian Community will take the lead with regard to economic development and community development in Southeastern Kentucky.
Document 10: Tracks (novel): Tracks is a novel by Louise Erdrich, published in 1988. It is the third in a tetralogy of novels beginning with "Love Medicine" that explores the interrelated lives of four Anishinaabe families living on an Indian reservation near the fictional town of Argus, North Dakota. Within the saga, "Tracks" is earliest chronologically, providing the back-story of several characters such as Lulu Lamartine and Marie Kashpaw who become prominent in the other novels. As in many of her other novels, Erdrich employs the use of multiple first-person narratives to relate the events of the plot, alternating between Nanapush, a tribal patriarch, and Pauline, a young girl of mixed heritage.
Document 11: Shawnee State Park (Ohio): Shawnee State Park is a state park in Scioto County, Ohio, United States. The park is in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains near the Ohio River in Southern Ohio on State Route 125, just north of Friendship. It is surrounded by Shawnee State Forest. Shawnee State Park was once a hunting ground for the Shawnee Indians. The park was first opened in 1922 as Theodore Roosevelt state game preserve. The game preserve was converted into a state park during the Great Depression by the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Document 12: Isomgosiono: Isomgosiono, "Queen Anne", 1703 Treaty Signer for Pan NA Federation along with Sachem George Skipper of the Nottoway/Chero-en-ha-ka/Iroquois. These pan Native American communities go back to what may be communities formed per the one reference on the Capt John Smith Map of 1656 listing a single Shawnee group in the Susquahanna Valley when he mapped the area at that time. This map is found in the appendix of the Capt. John Smith Trail of the National Colonial Park System. The parent of Queen Anne is of the Shawnee of that mapped valley and they had been brought over by Pardo in 1570, according to carbon dating of their settlement area (Langston-MOretti, National Park Service, Ch. 4, Archaeology Study ) along with the Old Cheraw, after Pardo conquered the 20,000 Wichita, Kansas Iowans who lived there. Of those who were left, some were enslaved as "Monocan" (means Hemp Grower in Chiwere) and brought to the Susquahanna.(NPS Langston-Moretti, Ch. 4 and 10 of Weromicococo State Park/National Colonial Park Archaeology Study). The Cheraw were listed as Xualla by Pardo, Sara by the Tazewell, TN group found by Pardo, and Charra by cartographers of the blended 1724 encampment of surviving small pox plaqued tribes who had to put aside their differences who would not normally have lived near each other.
Document 13: Shawnee: The Shawnee (Shaawanwaki, Ša˙wano˙ki and Shaawanowi lenaweeki) are an Algonquian-speaking ethnic group indigenous to North America. In colonial times they were a semi-migratory Native American nation, primarily inhabiting areas of the Ohio Valley, extending from Ohio and Kentucky eastward to West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Western Maryland; south to Alabama and South Carolina; and westward to Indiana, and Illinois in the United States.
Document 14: Cherokee: The Cherokee ( ; Cherokee: ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯ , "Aniyvwiyaʔi " or Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩ , "Tsalagi " ) are an indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands. Prior to the 18th century, they were concentrated in southwestern North Carolina, southeastern Tennessee, and the tips of western South Carolina and northeastern Georgia. The Cherokee language is a Southern Iroquoian language and part of the Iroquoian language family. Today there are three federally recognized Cherokee tribes: the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina, the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma, and the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma.
Document 15: A Yellow Raft in Blue Water: A Yellow Raft in Blue Water is the debut novel of author Michael Dorris, published in 1987. It tells the story of three generations of Native American women: Rayona, who is half African-American, her mother Christine, and Christine's mother Aunt Ida. The story is told in three distinct sections, one for each woman. Throughout the book, themes of family, identity, and heritage are highlighted and examined.
ground_truth: Shawnee