Campus-wide activities at the University of Kansas (KU) for Veterans Day included a touching ceremony November 12 honoring Chester Nez, the last surviving member of the original 29...

In the spring of 1952, Chester Nez had to abandon his studies at the University of Kansas because his GI Bill funding ran out...

Three University of Kansas (KU) scientists have discovered the wild tomatillo, a weed native to North America and common throughout the Great Plains region, has cancer-fighting pot...

Jessica Lackey, Cherokee, and Millicent Pepion, Navajo and Blackfeet, are members of the Wetlands Preservation Organization (WPO), a plaintiff in the South Lawrence Trafficway (SLT...

For more than 20 years, debate has raged over a proposal by federal and state highway planners to route a major thoroughfare through the Wakarusa Wetlands in Kansas...

A video by KUJH-TV, the laboratory TV station of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Kansas, discusses Native American Heritag...

There are a number of challenges to saving an endangered language from documenting to teaching, but those aren’t stopping language specialists from the Cherokee Nation , the Univer...

Daniel R...