Native American Heritage Month

Paul L. Hedren, a retired National Park Service historian and superintendent, discusses his newest book about the Battle of the Little Bighorn and the fight for buffalo and freedom on the Plains.

Kansas author Laurie Dove discusses her debut book and the high rate of crime against members of Native communities. The novel follows Carrie Starr, who accepts a job as the tribal marshal on the fictional Oklahoma reservation where her father grew up, and investigates the disappearance of a local college student.

Stephen Aron, director of the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles, discusses how to talk about the forcible removal of Native Americans from their lands in the U.S. and efforts to redress the losses. Aron also explores how returning items from museum collections to Native communities can start the healing...

Blending tradition and history with commentary and aesthetics, the exhibition Going Home is at turns political, personal, satirical, and poignant. Artists Mona Cliff and Tom Farris join Kansas City-based painter David Titterington for a conversation about their work, inspirations, backgrounds, and careers in the contex...