Research Guides: Land Acknowledgement: A Resource Guide: Native Americans in Greater Kansas City

Native Americans in Greater Kansas City

Kansas City Indian Center
Incorporated in 1971, the Heart of America Indian Center, Inc., d/b/a Kansas City Indian Center operates as the Kansas City area’s only multi-purpose social service agency for American Indians
American Indian Council - Kansas City
Facebook page. Employment & Training Program for American Indians who reside in Iowa, Kansas or Missouri.
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Corporate Vision: To participate in the achievement of creating strong, healthy, economically stable, drug and alcohol-free individuals and families of American Indian descent who reside in the states of Missouri, Kansas and Iowa. To insure that these communities have access to services specifically designed to help them achieve and then maintain this position.
Haskell Indian Nations University
In Lawrence, Kansas. Haskell is a unique and diverse inter-tribal university committed to the advancement of sovereignty, self-determination, and the inherent rights of tribes.

Missouri Indigenous Nations Research Guide
From University of Missouri Libraries. There are currently no federally recognized tribes in Missouri. Most Native Americans were forced to leave the state during Indian Removal and this included all original tribes in Missouri. Information on this page concerns the original tribes of Missouri and the tribes who moved here after being forced from their land before they too were removed during Removal.
Indians at the Crossroads: The Native Activism of Bobby and Nancy Blue
By Joshua Mika. Biography and oral history.
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Bobby Blue, a Choctaw Indian originally from Oklahoma, and Nancy, his wife, were leaders in Kansas City’s American Indian community since the early 1960s. The Blues were integral in starting the first American Indian social club in Kansas City and later the city’s first federally-funded non-profit organization – the Heart of America Indian Center (HAIC).