November is #nativeheritagemonth — 🚗 Visit the Shawnee Tribe's Cultural Center, located in Miami, OK!
The Cultural Center is open to the public, but will be closed on November 27 and 28, when tribal offices will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.
More here 👉 shawnee-nsn.gov/news/reopening-stcc-2024
November is #nativeheritagemonth — 📖 Read up on some Shawnee History, "At the Mouth of the Scioto River" written by Gwynn Henderson (Education Director) and David Pollack (Director) work for the Kentucky Archaeological Survey, Department of Society, Culture, Crime & Justice Studies at Western Kentucky University.
"The original mouth of the Scioto River, in what is now southern Ohio, is far from Oklahoma. So far, perhaps, it has been forgotten. But important events in Shawnee history—in the mid-1700s and thousands of years earlier—took place there."
More here 👉 shawnee-nsn.gov/news/weemeyakwe-scioto-river
*Photo courtesy Portsmouth Murals Inc.
"What started at the turn of the century as an effort to gain a day of recognition for the significant contributions the first Americans made to the establishment and growth of the U.S., has resulted in a whole month being designated for that purpose."
More here 👉 nativeamericanheritagemonth.gov