2022 Fall Newsletter

The museum presently has on display a traveling ex hibit sponsored by Freedom’s Frontier National Heri tage area. Currently we have one about the history of “Womens Suffrage”. In the late summer we had a display about the forced Sharing the untold story of Christmas Dagenette removal of Native Americans from their ancestral homelands. Coming soon we will host an exhibit titled Fighting for Equality, People With Different Abilities. These exhibits are rotated among museums and li braries in Kansas.

Elaine Dagenette Heisler and Jeanne-d’Arc Dagenette came to Paola to talk about their great-great grandfa ther Christmas Dagenette This following story is a reprint of a article by Brian McCauley of the Miami Republic PAOLA — When cousins Jeanne -d’Arc Dagenette and Elaine Dagenette Heisler talk about their great-great grandfather Christmas Dagenet, they realize it’s a story many people in Paola have never heard. Baptiste Peoria tends to get more of the headlines. After all, he was leader of the Confederated Tribes of the Peoria, Kas

The musems Native American exbert Lloyd Peckman and Jeanne-d’Arc Dagenette pose long enough for a photo. kaskia, Wea and Piankishaw people, and he donated the land for the Paola Park Square. Two of Paola’s biggest streets are named after Baptiste Peoria, and a bust of Baptiste Peo ria and his wife Mary Ann Isaacs Dagenet Peoria is promi nently displayed on Park Square. But Jeanne and Elaine painted a different picture of Baptiste Peoria when they visited Paola on Nov. 3 to speak to Paola Rotary Club members and students at Paola Middle School during two separate presentations.

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