As part of the partnership, 2K Foundations helped open a recording studio in Miami, Oklahoma, to help preserve Shawnee language, culture and history.

State, city and tribal leaders scrutinized Tuesday an attempt from the Shawnee Tribe to acquire control of a former Native American boarding school amid disagreements over their shared history.

An Oklahoma tribe is ... incorporating the Shawnee language in-game as faithfully as possible, the news release states, developers researched archeological material, studied family photographs ...