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THE DEBATE CONTINUES TODAY OVER A VALUABLE PIECE OF HISTORY. STATE AND CITY LEADERS ARE PUSHING TO KEEP THE SHAWNEE INDIAN MISSION UNDER STATE CONTROL. INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER MATT FLENER IS HERE ...
This view of the Shawnee Indian Mission, looking southeast, shows the historic buildings on the south side of 53rd Street in Fairway. Tammy Ljungblad [email protected] The Kansas House ...
He grew up to become an orator and warrior for the Shawnee people ... were forcibly removed from their Ohio home in 1869 to Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma.
Nearly three years ago, the Kansas Historical Society planned to search the grounds of Johnson County’s Shawnee Indian Mission to discover whether children were buried there. But the project ...
Shawnee warrior Tecumseh and his brother, the prophet Tenskwatawa, organized an ambitious pan-Indian resistance movement. This is a story of strength, pride and pronounced courage.
Members of the House Federal & State Affairs Committee voted against a bill March 18, which would have conveyed the Shawnee Indian Mission in Fairway, Kan., to one of three present-day Shawnee Tribes.
A renewed debate took place at the Kansas State Capitol on Tuesday over the future of the Shawnee Indian Mission in Fairway, Kansas. State lawmakers are once again considering a bill that would ...