Tecumseh

WYSO contacted the DeWines to ask if they would talk about their recent experience in Oklahoma and why they decided to build Great Council State Park, and they said yes.

The Denison University Museum is holding a panel about 'The Ohio Country' podcast from noon to 1:00 p.m. on February 27. And we're releasing a bonus episode next week!

Great Council State Park is a first-of-its-kind interpretative center developed by the three federally recognized Shawnee tribes and the state of Ohio.

Artist and Ohio resident Suzanne Chouteau became a citizen of The Shawnee Tribe as an adult. Chouteau said her art reflects her appreciation for the brilliance and struggles of her Shawnee ancestors.

Historic interpreter Talon Silverhorn, of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, spoke about Tecumseh’s legacy and invited Ohioans to rebuild authentic relationships with Shawnee people.

In our upcoming series, we will provide a perspective on the history of the region we now call Ohio that very few of us learned in school. We'll put the experiences of Miami, Shawnee, Wyandotte, and other American Indian people at the center of a refreshed version of the state’s complicated past and undecided future.

The Ohio Country is a 12-episode podcast from the public media station WYSO about American Indian people reconnecting with their homelands in the Ohio River Valley.

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.

Last month, the Shawnee Tribe, whose homeland includes southwestern Ohio, decided to officially declare October 5 Tecumseh Memorial Day.

This year marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Tecumseh and some of that celebration will take place at the Little Miami Conservancy dinner on…