The Shawnee Honor Fund operates as a means to facilitate healing and repair for the Shawnee Tribes and those who live on ancestral Shawnee homelands.

Through unfair and often unlawful treaties, war, and systematic forced violent removal, the original inhabitants and stewards of the land across North America were robbed of their homelands. Every year and with every new transaction those who own and steward lands pay property taxes to the US government who stole, conquered, or swindled this land from the rightful stewards. While the US government benefits annually from these funds, the original Indigenous inhabitant’s descendants remain far removed, uncompensated, and in some cases still fighting for recognition or control of the land they were told was theirs generations ago.

The Shawnee Honor Fund (SHF) is an opportunity for non-Native people to engage in healing and repair. Funds received by SHF are distributed evenly to the three Shawnee Tribes. While we’re proud to offer these funds without strings attached, we’re grateful to know from each Tribe’s leadership that our funds contribute to preservation of the critically endangered Shawnee language, cultural education, the funding of ceremonial grounds, growth of ceremonial corn and other culturally important food, programing for elders and youth, and the Rematriation of ancestral Shawnee lands. Supporting the SHF is an opportunity to acknowledge a hurtful past and take practical steps toward repair with the rightful stewards of this land. The Shawnee Honor Fund believes this practice is a necessary part of the healing that people and land need.

SHF is run by unpaid, non-Native volunteers who live on Shawnee land. We are governed by a majority Shawnee board who ensure right representation and ensure transparency