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.

This June, all three three Shawnee tribes sent representatives to attend the unveiling of a bronze statue of Tecumseh in Ohio, according to the Shawnee Tribe.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.