$150K national humanities grant to support K-State’s Land Treaties Project

(April 10, 2024)

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A $150,000 national humanities grant will support Kansas State University’s Land Treaties Project.

Kansas State University officials announced that the National Endowment for the Humanities is support K-State’s Land Treaties Project to produce educational materials that tell the history of Kansas’s land acquisition and the removal of the Kaw Nation.

K-State officials said the $150,000 Humanities Initiatives grant will help the Chapman Center for Rural Studies, in K-State’s College of Arts and Sciences, and collaborators create oral histories, annotated historical documents, educational videos, curricula and other materials that demonstrate how Kansas — and particularly Kansas State University, the United States’ first operational land grant institution — came to possess the land of the Kaánze níkashinga, whose descendants are the Kanza people today known as the Kaw Nation.