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May 23, 2024 · WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — The first high school in the City of Wichita Falls, or “Old High,” was founded in 1891, before moving to Broad Street and then eventually Avenue H in 1909. From ...
May 16, 2024 · WICHITA, Kan. (KAKE) - This Saturday, May 18, 2024, marks the Keeper of the Plains' 50th birthday. But the idea of a statue of an Indian in the Keeper's spot has been around for a lot longer than ...
May 21, 2024 · Comanche, North American Indian tribe of equestrian nomads whose 18th- and 19th-century territory comprised the southern Great Plains. The name Comanche is derived from a Ute word meaning ‘anyone who wants to fight me all the time.’. They were one of the first tribes to acquire horses from the Spanish.
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6 days ago · For the U.S. government, forcing a Western education on Native American children was the pathway to what officials called “civilization.” Between 1778 and 1871, some tribes, often after being ...
6 days ago · The Indians can no longer make a living as they did in the past by hunting, fishing, gathering wild products.” View of the Black Hills today Runner1928 via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0
6 days ago · WICHITA, Kansas (KANSAS NEWS SERVICE) — Nearly two-thirds of Wichita teachers think the state’s largest school district is headed in the wrong direction, according to research conducted by a ...
May 25, 2024 · Wichita was founded in 1864 as a trading post on the site of a village of the Wichita Indians. It owed its early development to the Texas cattle trade along the Chisholm Trail and to the rapid spread of agricultural settlement along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, then under construction. In its early years Wichita was a stopover on ...
