Repositories and Sites
Kansas State Historical Society Museum
The museum displays items including Plains and Archaic pieces such as arrowheads, bones, grinding stones; burial mounds' finds; Plains Woodland projectile points; pottery; weapons; images; and garments. 6425 Southwest Sixth Avenue, Topeka.
Online, KSHS has items such as podcasts (e.g., Pipe Tomahawk, and Chief’s Blanket), articles, photographs, and featured collections. (Image: Grass lodge exhibit)
Kansas State Historical Society sites
The state of Kansas administers 16 historic sites, including the following five relating to tribes in Kansas. For more information, click on the site name below. Some sites do not have an American Indian theme but may contain tribal items such as Fort Hays.
Shawnee Indian Mission. Shawnee, Delaware, Potawatomie. 3403 West 53rd Street, Fairway. See image to right.
Grinter Place. Delaware. 1420 South 78th, Kansas City, KS.
Iowa, Sac, and Fox Mission. Grounds open for viewing. 1737 Elgin Road, Highland.
Kaw Mission. 500 North Mission, Council Grove.
Pawnee Indian Museum. 480 Pawnee Trail, [near] Republic.
Mid-America All-Indian Culture Center
This museum contains artwork, pottery, baskets, jewelry, beadwork, and pipe bags.
650 North Seneca, Wichita
Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum
Although the museum profiles the 1893 race for land at the Oklahoma-Kansas borders given to the Cherokee in Kansas, it also contains tribal artifacts. 31639 US-77, Arkansas City. (Image: Lining up for rush, Kansas State Historical Society). Read The Role Played by the Southern Kansas Towns in the Opening of the Cherokee Strip to Settlement.
