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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE FOR COMING OUT THIS AFTERNOON. IT’S A REAL BLESSING TO HAVE YOU ALL HERE AT THE SHAWNEE INDIAN MISSION IN FAIRWAY FRIDAY, SHAWNEE TRIBE CHIEF BEN BARNES PULLED HIS ...

FAIRWAY, Kan. (AP) — The Shawnee Tribe is asking to take over ownership of a historical site in Kansas that might contain unmarked graves of Native American students. The tribe released an ...

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly signed a bill requiring the Kansas State Historical Society to give the Shawnee Tribe ownership of a cemetery where many of its tribe members are buried. The Shawnee Tribe of ...

WYANDOTTE, Okla. — The Eastern Shawnee Tribe is celebrating a multi-agency effort to restore a creek that runs through their land. The tribe held a blessing ceremony Wednesday to officially ...