Starved Rock

Today's program that you will not want to miss!!!

The History of the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma.

1:30 p.m. at the Starved Rock Visitor Center.

Logan Pappenfort is the Curator of Anthropology and Interim Director at Dickson Mounds State Museum. He is descended from tawaahkwahkinanka (Trail of the Storms) who was the hereditary chief of the Piankashaw which are represented by the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Okahoma today . Logan has a keen interest in the history of Illinois and its people. He believes that it is his responsibility as an individual of native descent to tell those narratives and perspectives which have so often been neglected in the past. Logan received a Bachelor of Science in Anthropology from Kansas State University and served for six years as Director of Cultural Preservation at the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma In which he worked with various institutions across the Peoria Nation's ancestral lands in order to protect Peoria Cultural and Sacred sites. In addition to his role within the cultural preservation department, he also served 4 years on the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma's Business Committee as Second Chief and has helped to coordinate the Peoria Annual Pow-wow from 2015 - 2021. ... See MoreSee Less

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