When Shawnee Tribal Chief Ben Barnes walks through three aging, derelict buildings in Fairway, Kansas — what’s left of the former Shawnee Indian Mission Manual Labor School — he thinks of his own ...

In the rolling hills of Bloomington, Indiana, lives a woman who has spent her 81 years collecting artifacts and artwork about the people from whom her grandparents told her she came. But the tribe of ...

Tribal nations are not adjacent to Oklahoma’s story — we are central to it. We want what every Oklahoman wants for the future ...

A plan to use ground penetrating radar to search for unmarked graves of Native children at one of the oldest and most significant historical landmarks in the state of Kansas is on hold, according to ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Shawnee Tribe released a detailed plan Thursday on how it plans to save and restore the Shawnee Indian Mission. Broken down into three phases, the plan estimates it will take ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Just as the Shawnee Tribe planned to release a proposal to obtain ownership and renovate the Shawnee Indian Mission in Fairway, the Kaw Nation released a letter Wednesday expressing ...

FAIRWAY, Kan. (KCTV) - A Kansas House bill proposes transferring ownership of the Shawnee Indian Mission site from the Kansas Historical Society to the Shawnee tribe. The topic of debate surrounds ...

The Shawnee Tribe says the state of Kansas should give up ownership of the historic Native American boarding school in Fairway. But this week, the Kaw Nation made an argument that they — as the ...

MIAMI, Okla. — Shawnee Tribe Chief Ben Barnes grew up playing video games, including “probably hundreds of hours” colonizing a distant planet in the 1999 title Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. So when that ...

This view of the Shawnee Indian Mission, looking southeast, shows the historic buildings on the south side of 53rd Street in Fairway. Tammy Ljungblad [email protected] The Kaw Nation announced ...

The Shawnee Tribe is partnering with the city of Fairway to look into the history of the Shawnee Indian Mission boarding school, and to find if there are any unmarked graves of Native American ...

Facing pressure to increase timber harvests, the U.S. Forest Service is sidestepping rigorous environmental reviews and limiting public participation.