Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians

infobox ethnic group
group = Absentee Shawnee


poptime =
popplace = Oklahoma
langs = Shawnee, English
rels =
related = The Absentee Shawnee is a tribe of three united Native Americans bands of Shawnee living in present day Shawnee, Oklahoma.Cite web|url=http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/3faab89fbfd963e1852570180055833a/af70278d0cf8f6ab8525710f00434f29!OpenDocument|title=EPA Selects Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma for $200,000 Grant|accessyear=2007|accessmonthday=October 8|publisher=United States Environmental Protection Agency|year=2005|author=United States Environmental Protection Agency|language=English] Cite web|url=http://www.countywidenews.com/articles/2007/10/04/news/28ast%20college.txt|title=AST Offers College Help For Students|accessyear=2007|accessmonthday=October 8|publisher=Tecumseh Countywide News & Shawnee Sun.|year=2004|author=Tecumseh Countywide News & Shawnee Sun.|language=English] .The current Governor of the Absentee Shawnee tribe is Scott Miller, and the tribe's environmental director is Renee Hood.Cite web|url=http://www.aiccm.com/Default.aspx?p=10643|title=Oklahoma Tribes|accessyear=2007|accessmonthday=October 8|publisher=American Indian Cultural Center and Museum|year=2007|author=American Indian Cultural Center and Museum|language=English] Cite web|url=http://www.countywidenews.com/articles/2007/09/27/news/06tif%20funds.txt|title=TIF Funds To Help Light Field|accessyear=2007|accessmonthday=October 8|publisher=Tecumseh Countywide News & Shawnee Sun|year=2007|author=Pottawatomie Online: Tecumseh Countywide News & Shawnee Sun|language=English] The three bands are the Bicowetha (Piqua), Kispokotha (Kispococoke) and the Hathawekela. Their landbase is a former Indian Reservation called the "Citizen Potawatomi Nation-Absentee Shawnee OTSA" where the tribe still exerts some degree of sovereignty.Cite web|url=http://thorpe.ou.edu/codes/absshaw/|title=The Absentee Shawenee Tribe of Oklahoma - Legal Codes|accessyear=2007|accessmonthday=October 8|publisher=University of Oklahoma Law Center|year=1999|author= Marilyn K. Nicely, Law/Tech Librarian|language=English]

The various Shawnee tribes were scattered over much of the East Coast of the United States before the arrival of the Europeans to the New World. After a long and complicated history, finally in 1845, a majority of the tribe that had settled in Kansas at that time, moved to the shores of the Canadian River on Indian Territory (now the state of Oklahoma) and became absent from their reservation in Kansas, thus became known as the "Absentee Shawnee." In 1867 the Eastern Shawnee were living with the Seneca in Kansas and were also removed to be incorporated with the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma, where they still reside. Another band known as Black Bob's initially refused to be removed from Kansas, but were ultimately forced to do so and joined the other tribes.

ee also

* List of Indian reservations in the United States

References

External links

* [http://www.astribe.com Absentee Shawnee Tribe]
* [http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/shawnee/shawneehist.htm Shawnee History on Access Genealogy]
* [http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/shawnee/shawneedivisions.htm Shanee Indian Divisions on Access Genealolgy]
* [http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/shawnee/hathawekalaindianhist.htm Hathawekela History (the principle band of Shawnee) on Access Genealogy]