FAIRWAY, Kan. — [Click here to watch Part 2] Shawnee Tribe Chief Ben Barnes has pushed for more than two years to understand more about what happened at the Shawnee Indian Manual Labor School.

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

Tune in this Friday as Levi Rickert, publisher and editor of Native News Online, interviews Shawnee Tribe Chief Ben Barnes on the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report ...

FAIRWAY, Kan. — Shawnee Tribe Chief Ben Barnes stood at a podium before a small crowd outside the Shawnee Indian Mission in Fairway on Sept. 30, 2021. He came to the microphone that day to call ...

POPULATION. 388. SO I’M REALLY EXCITED TO BE HERE TO VISIT WITH YOU GUYS TODAY. CHIEF BEN BARNES OF THE SHAWNEE TRIBE. HE’S SPEAKING TO A CLASS IN THE TOWN HE ONCE CALLED HOME. MY TIME AT EDNA ...

MIAMI, Okla. (AP) — 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 ...

News All three Shawnee Tribes present at Tecumseh statue unveiling in Ohio FOX23.com News Staff Jul 6, 2022 Updated Jul 25, 2023 ...

TOPEKA, Kan. — [Click here to watch Part 3] The struggle for the future of the Shawnee Indian Mission took several twists and turns in 2022 and 2023, as KMBC 9 Chronicle has documented.

The birthplace of Shawnee Indian Chief Tecumseh, Xenia is an area that saw a peak Shawnee Indian population of 1100 people and was the site of a groundbreaking for the new Great Council State Park ...

Those findings are from December 2021, when the report was completed. Fast forward a year, Shawnee Tribe Chief Ben Barnes says the conditions have not improved at the site.

FAIRWAY, Kan. — A push by the Shawnee Tribe in Oklahoma to take control of the Shawnee Indian Mission in Fairway will not move forward in the Kansas Statehouse this year. State representatives ...

MIAMI, Okla. (AP) — 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.