The Indian Removal Act of 1830 and its implementation over the following years completed the dispossession that Tecumseh had spent his life trying to prevent.

Three federally recognized Shawnee nations exist today:

The Shawnee Tribe, headquartered in Miami, Oklahoma, is one of the federally recognized successors of the historic Shawnee people.

Its history includes the traumatic relocations of the nineteenth century and the survival and maintenance of Shawnee cultural identity through generations of pressure.

The Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, headquartered near Shawnee, Oklahoma, represents another branch of the Shawnee people.

“Absentee” refers to a group that did not participate in certain land allotment proceedings in the nineteenth century.