The Piqua Shawnee: Cultural Survival in Their Homeland

Principal Chief Duane Everhart

Duane Everhart, elected Principal Chief at the May 2024 Spring Council Meeting after serving as Second Chief since 2012.

Tribal Mother Anita Pennington

Anita Pennington, Bear Clan Mother since 2007 and Tribal Mother of the Piqua Shawnee since 2013.

Chief Gary Hunt

Past Principal Chief of the Piqua Shawnee Tribe, honored for his service to the citizens of the Tribe.

War Chief Kevin Everhart

Kevin Everhart, serving as War Chief of the Piqua Shawnee.

Dr. Kenneth Barnett Tankersley

NAGPRA Tribal Representative, member of the Elders Council, and Associate Professor of Anthropology (Retired), University of Cincinnati.

Barbara Lehmann

Hawk Clan Mother, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, Tribal Historian, and Senior Tribal Elder.

Coming-of-Age Ceremony

Chief Gary Hunt and War Chief Kevin Everhart during a coming-of-age ceremony.

The Council Fire

Sessions of the Council are opened with a blessing at the council fire.

The Everharts

Duane, Trent, and Kevin Everhart — three generations of the Everhart family.

Piqua Shawnee Tribal Members

Citizens of the Piqua Shawnee Tribe of Alabama gathered together.

Phillip Lee Rose

Phillip Lee Rose on his property in the Tribe's ancestral homeland.

de Lisle Map, 1700

Detail of the 1700 French map by Guillaume de Lisle showing Shawnee settlements in what is now Alabama — early cartographic evidence of long Shawnee presence in the southeastern homeland.

Lewis & Clark Commemoration

Piqua Shawnee participation in the East of the Mississippi Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery commemoration (2003–2006).

Historical Tribal Document

Archival document from the Piqua Shawnee historical record.

Alabama — Ancestral Homeland

The Alabama landscape — ancestral homeland of the Piqua Shawnee.

Piqua Shawnee Homeland

A view through the gap — part of the Tribe's enduring homeland in the southeast.

Fire in the Winter Forest

Firelight in the winter woods — a continuing symbol of Piqua Shawnee cultural survival in their homeland.