2015 Spring Newsletter

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Mary Ann Isaacs Dagenet Peoria’s grave stone, wifeof Baptiste Peoria

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How did I get involved? At the Miami Indian Tribal Meeting held at the Paola Community Center on November 7th, 2013, I met the new Tribal Counsel from Miami, Oklahoma and members of the Myaamia Project from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. At this meeting Tammy Mason stood up and asked about the Miami Cem etery just south of Louisburg. last summer on September 13, 2014 at the Tribal Meeting at Timbercreek Resturant in Louisburg, Kansas; the same question came up. No one seems to know anything about JU ć FZ NBZ IBWF CFFO MPPLJOH GPS UIF MPTU CVSJBM HSPVOET NJMFT south at Rockville and Miamivillage. I reported to the group and Chief Doug Lankford, that I knew it not as a Miami but as a Wea-Dagenette Cemetery. I said that it has been almost inaccessible, because the northeast road has been washed out along South Wea creek. I knew that Dr. John Gangel who lives just southwest of the Cemetery had called our Museum and we got permission from Ken Dagenette for him to remove a cedar tree which had fallen on the. south fence. I also knew the

Larry Lybarger and Larry McGee

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