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 ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas House Committee on Federal and State Affairs has scheduled a hearing next week that could decide the fate of a long-running dispute over who should control the historic ...

FAIRWAY, Kan. — The future of a Kansas historical site could involve Native American tribes. At least, that’s what the city of Fairway believes. This week the city invited more than 50 tribes to the ...

During a U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing on Wednesday, leaders of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Friday marked a day that many people, including Shawnee Tribe Chief Ben Barnes, have fought toward for years — acknowledgment of the hardships Indigenous children faced at boarding ...

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 ...

A battle is brewing over ownership of the Shawnee Indian Mission in Johnson County, as the Shawnee Tribe lobbies to take over the state historic site, arguing that the former boarding school site has ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two identical bills in the Kansas statehouse propose the state should transfer ownership of the Shawnee Indian Mission in Fairway to the Shawnee Tribe. The legislation is the latest step in a fierce ...