Curious about Mission history? The Foundation website now allows you to explore Mission history in the land we call home from the comfort of wherever you happen to be. Check…
In mid-July, Nathan Nogelmeier, Fairway City Administrator, invited the 22 Native American tribes who sent children to the Mission school, plus 40 other tribes with aboriginal or other ties to…
Above: Kanza had ‘cabanas’, bark-covered lodges, in their villages but a skin-covered tipi was used when on the move for hunting expeditions. In the July 2023 issue of the Mission…
View your homeland with different eyes. Some little known and even surprising facts…a regular feature the Mission Times. Kansas is named for the people who lived in our homeland centuries…
The Shawnee Indian Mission is a valuable community resource. It’s a gathering place, a showcase, a landmark and a learning center. The many organizations that serve as Mission partners enable…
The SIM offers a range and variety of programs, none of which would be possible without our volunteers. Their spirit, skills and generosity animate every program at the Mission. …
The Shawnee Indian Mission Fall Festival, as we all know and love it, has been cancelled for 2020. It would have been the 35th time the Mission gathered a large…
West Building Throwback Throwback Image! This picture of the West building was taken in 1939, 100 years after the building was constructed. The site opened as a designated State Historic…
Sarah “Sallie” Bluejacket Sarah “Sallie” Bluejacket was born January 7, 1844, in Johnson County, Kansas Territory, to Charles Kal-we and Julia Ann Wah-nah-ta-the-qua Bluejacket. Her father was a Shawnee chief,…
Thomas Johnson Thomas Johnson was a controversial man, both in the past and present. He is the namesake of the most populated county in the state of the Kansas, and…