Barbara Lehmann

Barbara Lehmann serves as the Hawk Clan Mother of the Piqua Shawnee, the Tribal Historic
Preservation Officer, Tribal Historian, and a member of the Elder’s Council. As our beloved
Senior Tribal Elder, Barbara has a vast institutional memory, extensive historic tribal resources,
and contacts with federal, state, and local agencies concerning historical Native American issues.
She has received numerous honors for her lifetime work on the history of the tribe including
being inducted as an Honorable Kentucky Colonel, the highest title of honor bestowed by the
Commonwealth of Kentucky. Barbara is an honorary member of the Simon Kenton and the
Seneca Nation’s Simon Girty families. She chaired the committee to rename U.S. route 68 from
the Simon Kenton memorial bridge to Kenton, Ohio as The Simon Kenton Memorial Highway
(Ohio Revised Code §5533.49). Barbara has served as an interpreter for the 2003-2006 East of
the Mississippi, Lewis and Clark Corp of Discovery, an advisor for screen plays on Native
Americans, and appeared in documentary films on historical events in the Ohio River valley for
PBS as well as the Canadia Broadcasting Company. She assisted a staff writer for Muzzle Loader
Magazine, and co-authored the book, Piqua Shawnee: Cultural Survival in their Homeland.
Barbara’s standard statement is “You are never too young to teach and you’re never too old to
learn.”