According to this journal entry, Johnston Lykins and his fellow missionaries at the Shawnee Mission in Indian Territory (now northeast Kansas) had written to the school board requesting permission to provide meals for the students. Their request was denied, and the missionaries feared that their students would no longer attend classes.
Date: October 27, 1832
Creator: Lykins, Johnston, 1800?-1876
Since it has to do with school lunches, 7th graders studying this standard will relate to this entry. It also demonstrates how some missionaries were trying to provide for their students' well being.
KS:7th:1.4:Indian Removal (2005)
Item Number: 209991
Call Number: Johnston Lykins Coll. #421, Box 1 Folder 1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 209991
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Religion - Missionaries
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Teachers
Collections - Manuscript - Lykins, Johnston
Curriculum - 7th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - Prehistory to 1854 (Benchmark 1) - Indian Removal Act (Indicator 4) - Disease and starvation
Curriculum - 7th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - Prehistory to 1854 (Benchmark 1) - Indian Removal Act (Indicator 4) - Mission work and mission schools
Curriculum - 7th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - Prehistory to 1854 (Benchmark 1) - Indian Removal Act (Indicator 4) - Shawnee
Date - 1800-1854
Education - Primary - Students
Education - Primary - Teachers
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Journal
People - American Indians - Missions - Shawnee Baptist Mission
People - American Indians - Tribes - Shawnee
People - Notable Kansans - Lykins, Johnston
Places - Counties - Johnson
Places - Indian reservations - Shawnee
Places - Regions - Northeast Kansas
Thematic Time Period - Indian Territory, 1820-1854
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Journal
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/209991
