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405/572. FIPS code. 40-66800 [ 3] GNIS feature ID. 2411879 [ 2] Website. ShawneeOK.org. Shawnee ( Meskwaki: Shânîheki[ 4]) is a city in and the county seat of Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, United States. [ 5] The population was 29,857 in 2010, a 4.9 percent increase from the figure of 28,692 in 2000. [ 6]
The Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma (or Absentee Shawnee [2]) is one of three federally recognized tribes of Shawnee people. [3] Historically residing in what became organized as the upper part of the Eastern United States, the original Shawnee lived in the large territory now made up of Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio ...
Council of Three Fires ( Odawa, Potawatomi, and Ojibwe) Citizen Potawatomi Nation is a federally recognized tribe of Potawatomi people located in Oklahoma. The Potawatomi are traditionally an Algonquian -speaking Eastern Woodlands tribe. They have 29,155 enrolled tribal members, of whom 10,312 live in the state of Oklahoma.
St. Gregory's University was a private Catholic university. It was one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It had its main campus in Shawnee and an additional campus in Tulsa. The university closed its operations at the end of the fall 2017 semester. [ 1][ 2]
The Shawnee Tribe is an Eastern Woodland tribe. They originally came from Ohio and Pennsylvania, and were the last of the Shawnee to leave their traditional homelands there. [ 6] In the late 18th century, European American encroachment crowded Shawnee lands in the East, and one band migrated to Missouri — eventually becoming the Absentee ...
Ottawa County, Oklahoma, U.S. Alma mater. Pittsburg State University. Occupation. Politician. Profession. Educator. Glenna J. Wallace is an educator and politician who has served as Chief of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma since 2006. Wallace is the first woman to serve as Chief of the Eastern Shawnee.
[5] [8] The Shawnee, Oklahoma and Missouri Coal and Railway (also later acquired by the Frisco) was built from Muskogee to Okmulgee in 1902-03, and lasted until abandoned in 1973. [5] And, the shortline Coalton Railway, later called the Okmulgee Northern Railway , operated between Okmulgee and Deep Fork carrying coal from the producing areas ...
The Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma are primarily descendants of Shawnees who lived in Ohio until the 1830s. The Shawnees, an Eastern Woodland tribe who were once nomadic, occupied territory throughout what became the eastern United States, living in present-day Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, Western Maryland, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania. [ 3]