Native American

Christina Haswood, a 26-year-old Native woman from Lawrence, Kansas, talks about how she went from graduate student to politician

Q&A: Christina Haswood On Becoming a Kansas State Representative

Get to know one of the youngest representatives in the Kansas legislature.

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Chiefs fan in headdress doing the tomahawk chop

Chief Concerns in Kansas City

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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Kansas City's Guadalupe Center in the 1930s

curiousKC: A Visual History on Racial Distribution in the Metro

Is KC divided into different racial groups? curiousKC investigates. And the short answer: yes. See why.

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Statue of Fish, Jr. and Eudora

The Mission Link

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

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The junior and senior buckskin dancers line up

Regional Effort Aims to Improve Health and Education of Native Americans

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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