The Kansas House Committee on Federal and State Affairs voted against a bill that would have transferred ownership of the Shawnee Indian Mission historical site from the state to the Shawnee Tribe.
Known as HB 2834 , the bill called for the Kansas Historical Society to convey the property in Fairway over to the Shawnee Tribe. It restricted gambling or gaming on the property and required the tribe to report to the Joint Committee on State-Tribal Relations every two years for a 10-year period regarding the rehabilitation of the property and consult with other tribes impacted by the National Historic Site.
Since the bill failed, the Kansas Historical Society and its local partners will remain the owners and operators…