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The 2023 Kaw Mission Councils Series “Westward Expansion,” will begin on January 22, with the Friends of Kaw Heritage annual meeting. After the annual meeting, the program “A History of the American Indian Boarding School” will be presented by Eric Anderson. Dr. Anderson is a professor and chair of the Indigenous and American Indian Studies Department at Haskell Indian Nation University in Lawrence, Kansas Renewed calls for investigations into the abuses to American Indian children have brought new scrutiny to the boarding school system. This talk will examine the thinking behind the creation of federal schools for youth including Haskell Indian Nations University, originally known as the United States Indian Industrial Training School, and how this system affected Native communities in the short and long term. The American Indian story is one of cultural survival, but what are the next steps for reckoning with this difficult and painful part of national history?

Jude Kormanik, 16, Alta Vista, struck a deer while driving south on K177 on Nov. 4, 2022, when it entered the roadway from the east ditch. Damage was caused to the driver’s side of the 2016 Dodge Ram. He was wearing his seatbelt.

Lynn Smith, the Executive Director of Pioneer Bluffs, which is south on KS 177 near Matfield Green, was the guest speaker at the Council Grove Rotary Club Wednesday. She talked about the heritage of the Flint Hills ranch and discussed what’s happening at the historic ranch.