KANSAS!

As the lifestyle magazine of Kansas, each issue celebrates the best of our state. It’s people, places, and spaces. For over 75 years, we’ve shared the stories of the Sunflower State, told by Kansans. Featured topics include a dynamic line up of culture, food, travel, outdoors, history, personalities, and communities.

Kansas!

IT’S ALL IN THE “EXTRA” details

A hello FROM OUR EDITORS • My family’s connection to Kansas started with my tribe’s removal to Kansas territory 175 years ago.

‘The Answer … Is Found in the People’ • Writer Jimmy Beason talks about his children’s history book and the importance of Native peoples overseeing the narrative of the past and the heroes who shaped it

‘Tribal Enterprises Adapt to Community Needs’ • Businesses that are good for the land are good for the people

Ryan Coody • A conversation with KANSAS! photographers about their lives in photography

THE kansan

Reasons We Love Kansas

Q&A with Kickapoo Tribal Chairman Lester Randall • Kickapoo Tribal Museum

2022 Overview of Native Cultural Events

Morning Light Kombucha • As a Native-owned business scales, so does its ability to support causes and partners in Kansas and beyond

The Language of Land Acknowledgments • Addressing erasure and responsibility by acknowledging Indigenous peoples’ relationships to land

New Mascots Offer New Beginnings • Kansas public schools see benefits for their students and their relationships with Native communities after adopting new mascots

‘We Are Still Here’ • A more appropriate and accurate understanding of Native peoples and nations begins with education

WORKING FROM A PAST HEADING TO A FUTURE • Ric Dunwoody and Mona Cliff talk contemporary Native art and the futures they envision

A Herd, Once More • The Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas works to care for and grow its herd of bison as a practical and symbolic bridge between its past and future

THE Next Generation • A photo celebration of recent Haskell Indian Nations University graduates and their thoughts on Kansas and community with other Native students

FROM THE Poet Laureate

Haskell Medicine Wheel