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- The name Shawnee Mission derives from the Shawnee Methodist Mission. That historical mission to the Shawnee tribe was founded in 1830 by the Methodist church, in what became Wyandotte County, Kansas.
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The name Shawnee Mission derives from the Shawnee Methodist Mission. That historical mission to the Shawnee tribe was founded in 1830 by the Methodist church, in what became Wyandotte County, Kansas .
- 1825-1829
- 1830-1838
- 1838-1862
- 1854-1865
- 1862-1927
1825: removal of Eastern tribes into territory west of Missouri November: Treaty with Shawnee in Missouri to receive 50 square miles west of Missouri 1828: Fish Band of the Shawnee moved to the new reservation
1830: George Vashion, agent for the Shawnee, at request of Chief Fish, asked for a Missionary of the Missouri District of the Methodist Church September: Missouri Conference organized the Missionary Society and projected 4 Missions. Thomas Johnson was appointed to the Shawnee Tribe. November: Fish Band/Shawnee accepted proposal from Methodists for ...
1838: The Missouri Conference provided for the establishment of an enlarged Indian Manual Labor School, aided by government and the Shawnee consented to the establishment of the school on their lands, they resolved to establish it near the boundary of Missouri. (current location) 1839: Johnson reported work on the buildings for the new labor school...
1854: April, 100 Shawnees were called in council at their meeting house by the U.S. Agent, to hear a proposition from the Government to purchase their land. They selected 8 delegates to travel to Washington to make a treaty. May: Treaty formally established with the Shawnee Tribe. They ceded to the U.S. their land set apart for them by the treaty o...
1862:September; contract between government and Missionary society suspended for the school. 1863:July; Gen. Ewing established a military post at Shawnee Mission to protect Kansas from MO guerilla raiders. 1864: January; The Shawnee Tribe requested the possible sale of the Shawnee Mission land be strike out of the Treaty of 1864, as it would violat...
This Timeline is an ambitious project to chronologically document the happenings at the Shawnee Indian Mission and the region from its beginnings to the present.
Report of Shawnee mission: The Rev. William Johnson had charge of the mission and school, being assisted by his wife and Mrs. Thomas Johnson. The church society consisted of seventy-four native and three white members.
Shawnee Indian Mission. Shawnee Indians, along with many other eastern tribes, were moved to present-day Kansas in the 1820s and 1830s. Upon relinquishing their lands in the East, Shawnees received a large tract of land (about 1.6 million acres) west of Missouri in an area sometimes called the Great American Desert.
Oct 5, 2021 · In late September, officials in Fairway, Kansas announced they would work with the Shawnee Tribe to look into the history of the Shawnee Indian Mission, which was an Indian boarding school...
Shawnee Mission, like many other missions, was established as a manual training school attended by boys and girls from Shawnee, Delaware, and other Indian nations from 1839 to 1862. Visit this 12-acre National Historic Landmark and learn the stories of those who lived there.
