The North Building at the Shawnee Indian Mission site, c. 1940. Johnson County Museum
It's another beautiful Throwback Thursday and we encourage you to time travel through the history of Johnson County.
There is a new JoCoHistory Blog story: The Long History of the Shawnee Indian Mission Site
The Johnson County Museum is hosting Away from Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories through March 18, 2023. The nationally touring exhibit from Kansas City’s Mid-America Arts Alliance explores the history of the federal, off-reservation Indian boarding schools in operation between the 1870s and the 1980s. What is today known as Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas was the closest federal, off-reservation boarding school to Johnson County. The exhibit does not tell the story of the Shawnee Indian Mission State Historic Site in Fairway, Kansas, however. The Shawnee Indian Mission history has been featured in several blogs on JoCoHistory.org, but the site's role in state history is lesser known. A new JoCoHistory Blog post, guest written by staff at the Shawnee Indian Mission State Historic Site, compiled four things readers might not know about the Shawnee Indian Mission.
Please visit the JoCoHistory blog for the full article.