The great seal of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma • Indigo Sky “The seal prominently displays the Me-she-Pe-She or Panther and the Wa-be-the or Swan. The history of our tribe begins with the Panther and the Swan and throughout time their meaning has evolved. George Blue Jacket recorded the beginning of the Shawnee People as handed down through the generations in a story written in 1829. In the story he said the Grandmother of all Shawnee people came from the great salt water holding the ta