Native Americans

It was the first public preview of something unique the non-profit is trying to bring to the region: more accurate, historical storytelling with actors who are citizens of federally recognized tribes.

The non-profit, whose mission is to tell historically accurate stories with actors who are citizens of federally recognized tribes, is in the middle of a fundraising campaign to launch a Shawnee Living History Tour sometime next year.

Hundreds of biology professionals and students gathered in Columbus for the 2023 Ohio Botanical Symposium last week. The special address, “The Roots of Culture: The Relationship between Native Plants and Native People of the Midwest,” was given by Yellow Springs resident and Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Cultural Programs Manager Talon Silverhorn.

Shelly Watson and Talon Silverhorn are demonstrating the late eighteenth century way of making maple sugar from a Shawnee perspective this month.

A bus on Miami University's campus has a new, special design that celebrates the 50th anniversary of the relationship between the institution and the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma.

A federal law from 1990 requires public institutions like museums and universities to return Native American artifacts — hundreds of thousands of human remains, funerary objects and other items. Ohio's historical society, called Ohio History Connection, holds the second largest collection of objects in the country.

Laveena Wolf Lichtenfels and Thomas Lavergne share an oral history of the Shawnee people — how they were divided as Americans pushed them from their land, and how Chief Tecumseh took a stand when others wouldn’t. Lichtenfels and Lavergne, who are Shawnee, shared their stories with Hope Taft near the Old Shawnee Principle Village on the Little Miami River.

Gary Victor interviews Guy Jones of the Miami Valley Council for Native Americans.

Indian Country Today's Mary Annette Pember said members of the Shawnee feel they are beginning to reclaim the mound that their ancestors built. Members of the tribe visited the mound last month during the summer solstice after being invited by the Ohio History Connection.

Cleveland Indians ownership on Monday afternoon confirmed that the process of changing the team name has officially begun. The New York Times first reported the team’s intent Sunday night, using anonymous sources.

Silverhorn spoke about American Indian identity and history, cultural appropriation, and colonization to dozens of attendees at Caesar Ford Park.

Dayton has called off plans for a National Football League field at Triangle Park after non-invasive ground penetrating radar tests showed the presence of…