Faculty statewide tour to focus on Native American history

Wheat State tour participants view buffalo on the Duff Ranch in Logan County, Kan. (David McKinney/ University Relations)

The Native American heritage of Kansas as well as resources that shape the Sunflower State will be focal points for more than 40 KU faculty and staff members circling Kansas on a six-day whirlwind tour that begins May 17 and continues May 20 to 24.

This marks the sixth year that KU Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway has sponsored the tour to help KU faculty new to Kansas learn more about their new home state and the communities that are hometowns for many of their students.

The faculty will visit more than 20 communities and learn about Kansas' history, cultures, economies and landscape along the way. Communities on the 2002 tour include: Colby, Cottonwood Falls, Council Grove, Dodge City, El Dorado, Garden City, Greensburg, Hays, Lawrence, Logan, Lucas, Marienthal, Medicine Lodge, Montezuma, Nicodemus, Palco, Russell, Salina, Sylvan Grove, Topeka, Wichita and sites in Gove and Logan counties.

For more information, visit the tour Web site at http://www.wheatstate.ku.edu. The site's features include daily itineraries and related links plus photos and video from previous tours.

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