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Who Are The Piqua Shawnee Tribe?

The Alabama Indian Affairs Commission recognized nine different indigenous tribes as of right now. The Piqua Shawnee tribe is one of these nine tribes. As of now, there is evidence that this tribe has existed in Alabama all the way back to the late 17th century. In Alabama, a lot of people have been able to learn more about this specific tribe due to the fact that they have such a large presence within this community. Within this article, you will be able to learn more about what the Piqua Shawnee tribe has done and how they have been able to affect others.

When it first started out, the Shawnee tribe was around the area that Indiana and Ohio are currently in place within our United States. As far as the Piqua portion, they were one of the five divisions of the tribe and they were named after the legend of an evil man that came back after death to help lead a group of Shawnee to harmony as a people. This man that came back from the dead will appear in front of a group of these people in a cloud of smoke that came from their fire.

Eventually, the tribe was forced to scatter by various other tribes that wanted their land and resources. Some of the people that scattered ended up in what is Alabama today. The Piqua Shawnee were able to learn how to live with all of the other tribes that were already located in this area once they got there. A lot of traders that were travelling through Alabama and saw these individuals usually assumed that they were in one tribe rather than being several tribes. There were many wars that happened in the next few centuries and during this time, there were many different people that wanted to find refuge from the wars and decided to go to the Shawnee Picqua tribe in the south due to their resources. As years went by, the Shawnee Picqua tribe started to grow more and more and gain more members than ever before.

Some of the historians think that the people in the Shawnee tribe have possibly lived in Alabama longer than any other place. There is evidence that archaeologists have found that show evidence proving the idea that the Shawnee tribe lived in this area since the late 1600s, which is quite a long time and longer than many other tribes.

There are many people that are descendants of this tribe that still live in Alabama. A lot of the families that did not stay in Alabama left because of the different types of policies that the Andrew Jackson administration put into place. A lot of information has been lost on this tribe because of this, but there is still plenty to learn.

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