Hard Times for the Shawnee

SHAWNEE RESERVATION DISASTER

Star Burdick May 11 at 6:40pm Reply
ADDRESS FOR SUPPLIES AND GOODS TO BE SENT TO THE SHAWNEE REZ:
ABSENTEE SHAWNEE TRIBAL OFFICE Phone: 405.275.4030
A S T I
40206 BENSON PARK.SHAWNEE, OK 74801
***DO NOT SEND MONEY***
DONATIONS OF GENERATORS AND CLEAN UP MATERIALS MO...ST NEEDED. ANYONE THAT CAN PHYSICALLY HELP THE SHAWNEE CLEAN UP ARE ENCOURAGED TO DO SO.
GENERATORS FOR ELDERS NEEDED OF 1000 KILOWATTS OR BETTER. TRAILER GENERATORS OF 80-400 KILOWATTS ARE ALSO NEEDED. PLEASE SEE LIST ON DISCUSSION BOARD OF RED SHOULDER COUNCIL. SEND DRY AND CANNED GOODS, BATTERIES, FLASHLIGHTS, CANDLES, LIGHTERS, CLOTHING IN GOOD CONDITION, BLANKETS, TOWELS, TOILETRIES...ANY ITEMS THAT WOULD HELP IN AN EMERGENCY SITUATION. THE REZ IS TOTALLY DOWN DUE TO DAMAGE FROM TORNADOES. MANY BLESSINGS, STAR

Absentee Shawnee Tribe Headquarters

2025 South Gordon Cooper

Shawnee Oklahoma 74801

Phone: 405.275.4030

From Monica Garcia

This event is to bring awareness of the lack of forethright movement by our Federal, State and County governments across Turtle Island. Are we going to just sit back and let our relatives stand alone? NO!!!!! WE need to do something. THEY need to do something, NOW. Rally your family, friends, native or non-native. We n.........eed to get this network working for our people. Native Emergency Relief & Volunteer Agency is working hand in hand with Nationwide Native Network and Native Hoop and Rezspace to name a few. Plaster the inproprieties done to our relatives. Bring attention to the lack of respect and helping hands to our First Nation relations. Please invite people and keep spreading the word, that Absentee Shawnee tribe in Oklahoma needs our help. Not tomorrow or next week, right now! There are thousands of people in need of food, electricity, basic needs. There are people that still haven't been checked on since the tornadoe hit earlier this week because it is difficult to get to them. Please keep them all in your prayers. www.astribe.com pay pal button on front page.

Absentee Shawnee Tribe Headquarters
2025 South Gordon Cooper
Shawnee Oklahoma 74801
Phone: (405) 275-4030




On the eve of the American Revolution, the British government scrambled to appease the colonists and negotiate treaties with the Cherokee ceding land already taken from them by white settlers. To this end, all means, including outright bribery and extortion, were employed: Lochaber Treaty (1770); and the Augusta Treaty (1773) ceding 2 million acres in Georgia to pay for debts to white traders. For the same reasons as the Iroquois cession of Ohio in 1768, the Cherokee tried to protect their homeland from white settlement by selling land they did not really control. In the Watonga Treaty (1774) and the Overhill Cherokee Treaty (Sycamore Shoals) (1775), they sold all of eastern and central Kentucky to the Transylvania Land Company (Henderson Purchase).
Despite the fact that these agreements were a clear violation of existing British law, they were used later to justify the American takeover of the region. The Shawnee also claimed these lands but, of course, were never consulted. With the Iroquois selling the Shawnee lands north of the Ohio, and the Cherokee selling the Shawnee lands south, where could they go? Not surprisingly, the Shawnee stayed and fought the Americans for 40 years. Both the Cherokee and Iroquois were fully aware of the problem they were creating. After he had signed, a Cherokee chief reputedly took Daniel Boone aside to say, "We have sold you much fine land, but I am afraid you will have trouble if you try to live there."









Your thought advocates Judaism, Brahmanism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. In my thought there is only one universal religion, whose varied paths are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being. In your thoughts there are the rich, the poor, and the beggared. My thought holds that there are no riches but... life; that we are all beggars, and no benefactor exists save life herself. Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. Kahlil Gibran