Residency for Indigenous Americans


Students who are enrolled as a member of the following Nations are eligible for residency status at Kansas public institutions of higher education, regardless of the location of their residence:

  • The Kickapoo Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo Reservation in Kansas
  • The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation
  • The Iowa Tribe of Kansas
  • The Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska

Indigenous nations with historical connections to Kansas territories are also eligible. These include the federally recognized tribes containing one or more references to the following tribal affiliations within the Tribe's name:

  • Apache
  • Arapaho
  • Caddo
  • Cheyenne
  • Cherokee
  • Chickasaw
  • Chippewa and Ojibwe (including Bay Mills)
  • Choctaw
  • Comanche
  • Delaware
  • Iowa (Ioway and Baxoje)
  • Kaw (Kanza)
  • Kickapoo
  • Kiowa
  • Miami
  • Missouria (including Otoe-Missouria)
  • Modoc
  • Muscogee (Creek, including Yuchi, Euchee or Uchee)
  • Nez Perce
  • Omaha
  • Oneida
  • Osage
  • Otoe
  • Ottawa (Odawa)
  • Potawatomi (Pottawatomi)
  • Pawnee
  • Peoria
  • Ponca
  • Pueblo
  • Quapaw
  • Sac and Fox (including Meskwaki)
  • Seminole
  • Seneca-Cayuga
  • Shawnee
  • Stockbridge-Munsee (Mohican)
  • Wichita and Affliliated Tribes (Wichita, Keechi, Waco and Tawakonie
  • Wyandotte

Students who believe they are eligible should submit the Indigenous American Students form.