Illinois returns land to Prairie Band Potawatomi, rectifying an 1829 treaty violation with a historic state park transfer.

They’re among the region’s most despised species, but some tribes, researchers and landowners are racing to save them ...

The Illinois House narrowly approved the transfer of Shabbona Lake State Park to the Kansas-based Prairie Band Potawatomi ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (KANSAS REFLECTOR) - When Mike Moddrell bought 320 acres of land in southwest Douglas County in 2002, it looked ...

Kansas’s native grasslands formed about 12,000 years ago ... after European settlers arrived. Vast swaths of fertile land were converted to farmland, at the price of ecological diversity. Pockets of ...

Nearly two centuries after losing its reservation in Illinois in a land sale that most people now concede was illegal, the ...

Nearly one year after the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation became the first federally recognized Native American nation in ...

Kansas’s native grasslands ... Vast swaths of fertile land were converted to farmland, at the price of ecological diversity. Pockets of never-tilled prairie, such as Moddrell’s, are often ...

(Erin Socha for Kansas Reflector) When Mike Moddrell bought 320 acres of land in southwest Douglas County in 2002, it looked very different from the tallgrass prairie it is today. “When I bought ...