Chief Ben Barnes of the Shawnee Tribe in Miami, Oklahoma, has a deep connection to Kansas, particularly the town of Fairway, ...
Members of a Kansas House Committee voted against a bill which would have conveyed the Shawnee Indian Mission to one of three present-day Shawnee Tribes.
Originally located near Turner in present day Kansas City, Kansas, the Shawnee Indian Mission moved to present day Fairway in 1839, where a branch of the Santa Fe Trail passed through Shawnee land.