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Shawnee Band

A Guthrie contest report identifies the Shawnee Band as one of two official entrants and says it shared the rain-shortened contest purse with the Oklahoma U.C.T. Band.

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People and leadership

The reviewed evidence for Shawnee Band does not identify a director, bandmaster, organizer, or complete leadership succession.

Community and organization

Shawnee Band is treated as a community or municipal band because the evidence ties it to Shawnee. Municipal ownership, public funding, and organizational continuity are not inferred from a town name alone.

Reading the evidence

Determine the formal name and whether this was connected to any later Shawnee municipal or director-named band. Until that issue is resolved, the packet uses the narrowest chronology and identity stated in the evidence.

Questions for further research

Determine the formal name and whether this was connected to any later Shawnee municipal or director-named band.

Sources

  1. gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc166046/m1/1/