KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas House Committee on Federal and State Affairs has scheduled a hearing next week that could decide the fate of a long-running dispute over who should control the historic ...

The Kansas Historical Society plans to use ground-penetrating radar to search the 12 acres of the Shawnee Indian Mission in Fairway for children who might be buried there. This view shows the north ...

GREAT JOB. I FAIRWAY YA. IT’S THE FALL FESTIVAL AT THE SHAWNEE INDIAN MISSION HIGH. I A YEARLY TRADITION IN NORTHEAST JOHNSON COUNTY. PEOPLE COME TO LEARN THE HISTORY OF THIS PLACE. HEY. OH, HEY HEY ...

The Rev. Thomas Johnson may not be a household name, but residents of Johnson County, patrons of the Shawnee Mission School District and those in the Shawnee Mission U.S. Postal area are beholden to ...

Two identical bills in the Kansas statehouse propose the state should transfer ownership of the Shawnee Indian Mission in Fairway to the Shawnee Tribe. The legislation is the latest step in a fierce ...

A battle is brewing over ownership of the Shawnee Indian Mission in Johnson County, as the Shawnee Tribe lobbies to take over the state historic site, arguing that the former boarding school site has ...

The Shawnee Tribe says the state of Kansas should give up ownership of the historic Native American boarding school in Fairway. But this week, the Kaw Nation made an argument that they — as the ...