Chief Concerns in Kansas City

Chiefs fan in headdress doing the tomahawk chop

The Kansas City Chiefs are grappling with a branding issue as social justice advocates criticize the appropriation of Native American culture.

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The Mission Link

Statue of Fish, Jr. and Eudora

The statue of Paschal Fish Jr. holding his daughter stands in a garden in downtown Eudora, Kansas. (Catherine Hoffman | Flatland)

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Regional Effort Aims to Improve Health and Education of Native Americans

The junior and senior buckskin dancers line up

If you want to know how many American Indians live in the United States, the Census Bureau will tell you — sort of. That’s because its count of approximately 2.6 million Native Americans, or about 0.8 percent of the population, mostly groups them together with indigenous Alaskans. The same goes for federal health and education…

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