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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]
Map of Tribal Jurisdictional Areas in Oklahoma. This is a list of federally recognized Native American Tribes in the U.S. state of Oklahoma . With its 38 federally recognized tribes, [ 1 ] Oklahoma has the third largest numbers of tribes of any state, behind Alaska and California .
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
Pottawatomie County was carved out of land originally given to the Creek and Seminole after their forced removal from Georgia and Florida.After the Civil War, the Creek and Seminole were forced to cede their lands back to the federal government, and the area of Pottawatomie County was used to resettle the Iowa, Sac and Fox, Absentee Shawnee, Potawatomi and Kickapoo tribes.
Tecumseh (Meskwaki: Takamithîheki [4]) is a city in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma. The population was 6,302 by the 2020 United States census. [5] It was named for the noted Shawnee chief, Tecumseh. The locale was designated as the county seat at Oklahoma's statehood, but a county-wide election moved the seat to Shawnee in 1930. [6]
The Shawnees of the "Mixed Band" became the Eastern Shawnee Tribe. [2] The Eastern Shawnee organized as a federally recognized tribe under the 1936 Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act. [2] In May 2019, the Eastern Shawnee ceremonial grounds flooded with three feet of water. Thirty families were evacuated, and "local roads stayed impassable for weeks."
Scot Alexander Breithaupt (July 14, 1957 – July 5, 2015) [2] was an entrepreneur, "Old School" professional motorcycle MX and bicycle motocross (BMX) racer and a founding father of BMX in 1970 whose prime competitive years were from 1970 to 1984.
Glenna J. Wallace (born c. 1960 [1]) 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. [2]