Campus Programs

Explore programs at the University of Kansas for students/families and those that work with sovereign partners and Indigenous communities.

Indigenous Studies

Gain interdisciplinary skills to conduct theoretical and applied research and develop creative solutions to issues facing Indigenous communities.

Tipi in front of Strong Hall with Native students and a drum circle

Tribal Judicial Support Clinic

In the Tribal Judicial Support Clinic at KU Law, students work on research projects for tribal courts. Past projects include tribal code development, legal research, drafting legal memoranda and drafting judicial orders. Clinic students have opportunities to meet with tribal attorneys and judges at tribal headquarters. Through the clinic, students have done groundbreaking work for local tribes.

Law student standing in front of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Government Center sign

Haskell/KU Exchange Program

A wonderful opportunity for both Haskell Indian Nations University students and University of Kansas students to take classes at either KU or Haskell while remaining a full-time student at their home campus.

Haskell KU Exchange Program logo

KU Native Storytelling Workshop

The KU Native Storytelling workshop amplifies Native voices through journalism by bringing together Indigenous high school students from across the country to the KU campus. Students spend four days at KU as they are introduced to the field of journalism and explore ways that storytelling skills offer opportunities to give back to their communities.

KU Native Storytelling Workshop

Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership and Sloan Undergraduate Scholars Program

Sloan at KU supports Indigenous students pursuing STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) degrees. The project aims to increase the number of Indigenous students — American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders — attaining graduate and undergraduate degrees in STEM fields.

Professor Joe Brewer and students working in the river.

Tribal Law & Government Center

Founded in 1995, the Tribal Law & Government Center at KU Law aims to prepare a new generation of advocates for careers representing Indigenous peoples

Photo of green hall with a student walking toward the building

Good Morning Indian Country

Good Morning Indian Country is a Native, student-led weekly news and information program produced in partnership by students at the University of Kansas and Haskell Indian Nations University.

Good Morning Indian Country weekly news and information program

Culturally Responsive Early Literacy Intervention (CRELI)

Since 2020, the CRELI grant continues to serve the Native American community in Northeast Kansas by supporting early language and literacy development and culturally responsive instruction.

CERLI faculty and students pictured with Native American children.