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 ...

OF THE SHAWNEE MISSION. HOME FOR YEARS, WE. GO, WE GO. HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, HOLY. HE DID FOR US OUR HISTORY, OUR LONG HISTORY AND RELATIONSHIP WITH KANSAS IS MORE THAN JUST A BUILDING. IT’S HERE.

MIAMI, Okla. — Preserving the culture of a local tribe is the main purpose behind a new language center in Miami. Specifically, the Shawnee Language Center – officially celebrated with a ribbon ...

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 ...

MIAMI – 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 same ...

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 ...

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 ...

SHAWNEE TOWNSHIP — Shawnee schools intends to reinstate its tribal mascot to reinvigorate school spirit. The Shawnee tribe’s opinion of the mascot is unknown. Shawnee students once dressed as a “brave ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SHAWNEE, Okla. (KFOR) – A local Native ...

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 ...

MIAMI, Okla. — Preserving the culture of a local tribe is the main purpose behind a new language center in Miami. Specifically, the Shawnee Language Center – officially celebrated with a ribbon ...