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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		You Know John Dillinger, but Do You Know Evelyn Frechette?
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:03:30
	Publish Date:		2019-07-17 05:00:00
	Description:		You've heard of John Dillinger and the famous shootout at Bohemia Lodge in Manitowish Waters, but have you ever heard of Evelyn Frechette? That's the topic of this week's A Northwoods Moment in History with Gary Entz. Evelyn Frechette grew up in the Northwoods of Wisconsin and gained a measure of fame in the 1930s. Her celebrity did not come from being a film actress or anything of that sort. Rather, Evelyn Frechette became famous and drew crowds for national speaking tours because of her association with gangsters. Frechette was born in September 1907, on the Menominee Reservation. She was a member of the Menominee Tribe and had a mixed French and Menominee heritage. As a young girl, she attended St. Anthony's Catholic Mission School in Neopit, Wisconsin, and in her early teens she was taken from her family and culture and placed in boarding school at Flandreau, South Dakota. The goal of both mission and boarding schools was to use education as a tool to “assimilate” the First Nations
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