The Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma and the Ohio History Connection would like to acknowledge the contributors who made this project possible.
BENJAMIN BARNES is the Second Chief of the Shawnee Tribe, one of the three federally recognized tribes of Shawnee. He has collaborated with historians, archaeologists, and universities to create networks of collaboration so that Shawnee citizen-scholars are afforded future opportunities to re-contextualize the historical record and tell their own stories. He was the first recipient of Indiana University’s “Institute for Advanced Study Summer Research Fellowship” as well as co-director of the Shawnee Tribe’s “Language Revitalization Program.”
BRETT BARNES raised in Quapaw Oklahoma, now resides in Miami, Oklahoma. Brett is the Assistant General Manager at Indigo Sky Casino. He has a seated position as a singer and drummer at the White Oak Ceremonial Ground.
AMY DIANNE BERGSETH is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of Oklahoma. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in History and American Studies from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and her Master of Arts in History at the University of Oklahoma. Her doctoral dissertation explores intertribal interactions and nation-building among northeastern Oklahoma Indian nations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
JOHN BOWES is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Eastern Kentucky University. He is the author of Exiles and Pioneers: Eastern Indians in the Trans-Mississippi West and the forthcoming Land Too Good for Indians: Northern Indian Removal. In addition to his current research on allotment in northeastern Oklahoma he serves as an expert witness regarding allotment on behalf of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians and the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, respectively.”
ROBIN DUSHANE is married to tribal citizen Laurence Dushane. She serves in the Eastern Shawnee Tribe’s Cultural Preservation Department as the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer. She is a Shawnee language student and participates in dances throughout the community. Prior to working in Indian Country she was an educator in Oklahoma Public Schools for sixteen years.
DAVID EDMUNDS has authored biographies of both Tecumseh and the Tenskwatawa. He has also written on the history of tribes such as the Potawatomis, Meskwakis, Otoe-Missourias, Miamis, and Seneca-Cayugas. Edmunds has written and testified in support of tribal governments in the defense of tribal lands, and has served as a consultant to many museums and film producers. He currently serves as the Watson Professor of American History at the University of Texas at Dallas.
ANNIE WINIFRED “WINKIE’ DICK BARNES FROMAN is a tribal elder for the Shawnee tribe as well as the Eastern Shawnee tribe. She is retired from Indian Health Services.
CATHLEEN (CAT) OSBORNE-GOWEY is the Administrative Consultant/Out of State Client Advocate for the ESTO Family Violence Prevention Program. She is also an instructor in Women and Gender Studies for Utah State University and in Women Gender and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University. Since 2003 she has worked in social justice movements for Native American women’s rights, domestic violence and sexual assault advocacy in American Indian communities, as well as the effects of climate change on Alaskan Indian tribes.
ELSIE MAY HOEVET (1918-2006)
SHAWN KING
NORMA KRAUS
LARRY KROPP is the grandson of Thomas A. Captain, great grandson of Tom Captain. He currently serves as First Council of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma. Larry is thankful for the years of listening to stories told by family elders on Sunday afternoons at the Captain Grocery
SAMI LAKOMÄKI is a University Lecturer of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oulu, Finland. His publications include Gathering Together: The Shawnee People through Diaspora and Nationhood, 1600-1870. Currently he is working in a comparative project investigating the relations between Indigenous peoples and colonial states in eastern North America and northern Scandinavia.
ROBERT J. MILLER is a professor at Arizona State University College of Law and Chief Justice of the Grand Ronde Tribe Court of Appeals. He has written three books and over twenty articles on Indian legal and historical issues. He is a citizen of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe.
GLENNA WALLACE has served as the Chief of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma since 2006. For 38 ½ years she served as a professor, department chair, and division chair at Crowder College in Neosho, Missouri. A dedicated community servant, she currently serves on a variety of boards and committees. She is Chairman of People’s Bank, Chairman of Claremore Indian Hospital Board, serves on the Pittsburg State University Development Board and the Steering Committee UNESCO World Heritage Ohio Earthworks Nominating Committee.
STEPHEN WARREN is an Associate Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Iowa who has been working with the three federally-recognized Shawnee tribes since 2001. He is the author of two books, The Shawnees and Their Neighbors, 1795-1870 and The Worlds the Shawnees Made: Migration and Violence in Early America. Since 2014 he has served as the Lead Historian on the Eastern Shawnee grant, “A Search for Eastern Shawnee History.”
ERIC WENSMAN is the Historical Research Manager for the Eastern Shawnee Tribe. He is also co-director of the Shawnee tribe’s “Language Revitalization Program.” He is Bird Creek Shawnee and Red Lake Ojibwe. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1987. Eric has done extensive research on the Shawnee language and traditions and strongly believes that the only way to be native is to make it your way of life.