Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma

Inside of the "Upheaval" section of the OKLA HOMMA exhibit at First Americans Museum showing the timeline of Indian Removal on a black wall with government documents in white as the backdrop.

Political Name

Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma

Pronunciation

Ab-sen-TEE Shaw-nee

Self-Designated Name

Si-Wi-Nwi

A gray map showing the tribal jurisdiction areas of Oklahoma with a pink pin marking Shawnee, Oklahoma, where the Absentee Shawnee Tribe is headquartered.

Location

Shawnee, OK

Official Website

www.astribe.com

Title of Tribal Leader

Governor

The beginning of the WINIKO exhibition on the second floor of the First Americans Museum showing historical Native American items collected by the Smithsonian Institution.

Language

Algic (Central Algonquian)

Tribal Greeting

Hi ke ho wa se li si mi mo

Tribal Greeting (English)

How are you?

A gray map of the continental United States with all 39 tribes names over their homelands with black lines to their current reservation areas in the state of Oklahoma (highlighted in pink).

Cultural Relatives

Eastern Shawnee, Shawnee, Kickapoo, Muscogee, Delaware, Sac and Fox, Miami, Cherokee, Seneca-Cayuga, Yuchi (Euchee), Peoria Nation

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