The Shawnee tribe that Sherrow was a part of was United Remnant Band. This is an unrecognized group that claims state recognition. We have threads in here on others in the URB like Jerry Pope and Dark Rain Thom. Some of the leaders of this are clearly less than ethical. Individuals in the URB are likely a mix of descendants as well as those who claim to be or wish they were. The clearest sign of this not being an actual tribe is their claim that the wife was "adopted" by "trial by ordeal." Someone has been seeing too many old Star Trek episodes...
If Sherrow had any distant ancestry or not, he clearly did not have a clue nor practice anything close to Shawnee tradition.
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Usually when someone passes on we move it to Archives. The exception is always if their falsehoods are still out there harming and misleading others, which this clearly is.