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Shawnee Methodist Mission North building of the Shawnee Methodist Mission, Fairway, near Shawnee, Kansas.

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Kansas, United States
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Shawnee, city, Johnson county, northeastern Kansas, U.S. It is a southwestern suburb of Kansas City. The Shawnee Indians made their headquarters there in 1828, when it was known as Gum Springs. The nearby Shawnee Methodist Mission and Indian Manual Labor School (1839) served twice during 1854–56 as the temporary territorial capital of Kansas and has been partially restored. The first newspaper in Kansas (1835), the Shawnee Sun, was printed in the Shawnee language at the...

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