Topics in Kansas History: Cultural & Ethnic Groups

American Indians

Find resources on American Indians in Kansas.

• American Indian Place Names
• "The Baptists, the Methodists, and the Shawnees: Conflicting Cultures in Indian Territory, 1833-1834," Kansas History, Autumn 1994
• Bosin, Blackbear
• Curtis, Charles
• "A Holy Battleground: Methodist, Baptist and Quaker Missionaries Among the Shawnee Indians, 1830-1844." Kansas History, Summer 1998
• "Norton Bone Bed Reveals Wealth of Insights and Bison Remains," Kansas Preservation, January/February 2002
• Pawnee Sacred Bundle
• "Steed-Kisker: A Prehistoric Colonial Outpost in Eastern Kansas?" Kansas Preservation, September/October 2001
• War Between the Pawnees and the Kaws

Letters, documents, objects, and photographs

• Cheyenne war lance
• Delaware Indian Mission bookcase
• Delaware Indian Mission communion set
• Pawnee Sacred Bundle
• Plains Indian pipe and pipe bag
• Potawatomi artist Louis ShipShee's painting, Bison--Central Plains

• Kaw Mission State Historic Site in Council Grove
• Friends of Kaw Mission State Historic Site in Council Grove
• Native American Heritage Museum State Historic Site in Highland
• Pawnee Indian Village State Historic Site in Republic
• Shawnee Indian Mission State Historic Site in Fairway near Kansas City

Bibliographies, finding aids, and guides to the collections

• American Indian Bibliography
• Bureau of Indian Affairs Records, Central Classified Files, 1907-1939
• Enrollment Cards of the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898-1914
• Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940
• William Clark papers

Museum Store

• Books on American Indians

Kansas Interpretive Traveling Exhibit Service (KITES)

• Native American Folk Arts: Living Traditions
• A Photographic Narrative: The Indians of Kansas

Kansas Heritage, our popular history magazine

• To Have & Have Not: The Vanishing Lands of Native Americans, Summer 1996
• Earth, Wind, and Fire: Kansas Archeology, Spring 1997
• Comes A Horseman --The Native Americans--, Autumn 2001

Kansas History, our scholarly journal

• "Before Bleeding Kansas: Christian Missionaries, Slavery, and the Shawnee Indians in Pre-Territorial Kansas, 1844-1854." Spring 2001
• "The Changing Nature of the Slavery Debate: The Impact of the Wyandotte Constitution Upon Party Politics in Kansas and the Cherokee Nation," Autumn 1998
• "A Holy Battleground: Methodist, Baptist and Quaker Missionaries Among the Shawnee Indians, 1830-1844," Summer 1998, article also online
• "'How Cola' from Camp Funston: American Indians and the Great War," Summer 2001
• "A Richly Textured Community: Fort Riley, Kansas, and American Indians, 1853-1911," Spring 1998
• "A Story of Three Families," Summer 1996
• "The Whiteford Family of Salina: Mid-Twentieth Century Avocational Archeologists," Winter 2002

Kansas Kaleidoscope, our children's magazine

• "The Native American in Kansas," November/December 1997
• "Digging into Kansas History," April/May 2000

Teaching Materials

• Classroom Materials: Cultural & Ethnic Groups
• Field Trips: Cultural & Ethnic Groups