Today we will Indigenize the map of Lawrence

We will make a Google My Maps as a group by adding content to the layer called "Lawrence, Kansas." For each of the places below, add a marker, line, or polygon to the map; add a title, put your first name in the description box along with text and photos to describe your experience in that place. Some places are already marked to help you find them quickly, and you will find some of them contain links and videos. You will add your perspectives to these places - please be respectful of the work of other students, this is a group project and everyone will be contributing their view point. 

1. Mark a place where you have seen something interesting on the Kansas River in Lawrence (or nearby). What did you see? What effect did it have on you? How do you feel about the river?

2. Go to the Kanza Language map tour of the Kansas River (it may load slowly, be patient). Have you been to any of the places on this map? Add a marker to our group My Maps and tell us what your experience was at that location, and say something about the information you saw on the Kanza Language Map. Does this change your view of the river?

3. Find Iⁿ ‘zhúje ‘waxóbe (The Big Red Rock of the Kanza People) on the map. Have you ever driven or walked past it? Did you know what it was? Place a marker near it where you may have stood or walked and tell us about your feelings about Robinson Park and Iⁿ ‘zhúje ‘waxóbe  (you will find links in the map that tell the story).

4. Where is the Haskell Medicine Wheel? Where were the Haskell wetlands? Where is the South Lawrence Traffic Way? Have you ever been there? What was the fight to save the Haskell wetlands and block the SLT all about? Have you been to the Baker Wetlands Discovery Center? Add markers and tell us about this part of Lawrence and how you might think differently about it when you learn about this history. 

5. Have you attended pow-wows, art fairs, or cultural events that taught you about Native American cultures in Lawrence? Put a marker in the location and tell us about your experiences. Where is the Haskell Pow Wow grounds? If you have attended events there place a marker and tell us about it.

6. Find Billy Mills Middle School. What do you know about Billy Mills and his connection to KU and Haskell?

7. Find the KU Natural History Museum. Have you ever seen the display of the horse Comanche? How does the Natural History Museum display relate to Fort Riley, the 7th Infantry, George Armstrong Custer, and the history of tribes in Kansas and the Great Plains? Does knowing more about that change the way you feel about the display of the horse Comanche on our campus?

8. Go to https://native-land.ca/ and the Provost's Land Acknowledgement to find out whose land KU was built on (you should also look at the Land Acknowledgement for K-State). Have you seen the artwork in front of Spencer Art Museum called "Native Hosts"? Find it on our map and read the article in the link. What do you think about the attitude of students towards land acknowledgements? Does it change the way you view the KU campus to know whose land you are on? Where are the tribes now? Place a marker on their reservations and tell us what you think about the displacement that resulted in the building of KU and K-State.

9. Find the Reservations in Kansas. Have you ever been to one of the Tribal Nations in Kansas, or driven past them? What was your experience? Place a marker and tell us about it.

10. Add markers, lines and polygons to the map to share any other places in and near Lawrence that you know about which help us to see the presence of Indigenous People in our community and on the land we inhabit.

You will need to sign into a Google Account - if you do not have one you can create one here 

Go to the editable version of the Google My Map above by Clicking here to go to map 

Next you will need to click on the blue sign in button in the upper right corner and sign into your Google Account before you can edit the map