The Piqua Shawnee: Cultural Survival in their Homeland
Selected Photos
Writer and historian Janet Clinger and I documented and produced a traveling exhibit and a book of photographs and interviews with members of Piqua Shawnee Tribe. The project chronicles the ongoing cultural revitalization process taking place within the tribe as they live in two cultures that are often in opposition to one another.
The Piqua Shawnee formed in 1990 to give Native people, whose ancestors either stayed behind or returned after the Removal from the Ohio Valley in the 1830s, an opportunity to participate in cultural activities, especially ceremony, while bonding with other Native people. The Piqua Shawnee Tribe is state-recognized in Alabama, but members are scattered throughout the eastern United States. They come together in a central location in Kentucky three times each year. We were honored to be invited in to tell their story. The exhibit is traveled to Kentucky and Ohio.
The size of each image in this series ranges from 20 x 30 inches to 48 x 60 inches.
