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The Miller County gambling complex would cost $60 million, but first it requires a state-tribal compact and federal approval.
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Artist Edgar Heap of Birds' "Native Hosts" was vandalized and stolen last month from the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. It was re-installed this week — an achievement highlighted by speakers and musicians.
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The culture, history and contributions of the Osage, Kaw, Otoe-Missouria, Shawnee, Wyandot and other Native American tribes can be found across the Kansas City region.
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The captain of the Haskell Indian Nations University women's cross-country team no longer feels shy about her Lakota identity. "That's who I am," she says. "I shouldn't have to cover that up to make you comfortable."
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The captain of the Haskell Indian Nations University women's cross-country team no longer feels shy about her Lakota identity. "That's who I am," she says. "I shouldn't have to cover that up to make you comfortable."
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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 children.
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To honor missing and murdered Indigenous people, a group of Native American advocates is making a months-long trip across the country on foot and by bike.
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Missouri researchers have devoted years learning about Picture Cave and are appalled by the prospect of its auction. They would like to see the property in the care of the Osage Nation.
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The state's bucolic setting became the front line in America's westward expansion and in the fight over slavery.
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With only 12 of the mission's original 2,000 acres still in state hands, the Shawnee Tribe may never find where children who died at the school were buried.
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The tribe wants to know if indigenous children are buried at the Shawnee Indian Mission, and how the ranks of those who make artisanal beer are becoming more diversified.
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Jackson County legislator notes that the carefully-crafted language "speaks to where we were and where we are."