The Indigenous-led arts nonprofit Caesar’s Ford Theatre is hosting a free event in Springfield this weekend to memorialize the Shawnee chief Tecumseh.
Tecumseh is a renowned Shawnee chief and military leader. He’s known for his resistance to U.S. colonization of his homelands, which include the Ohio River Valley.
The nonprofit theater company’s mission is to tell historically accurate stories with actors who are citizens of federally recognized tribes. But the group’s programming now goes beyond plays…