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View of Haskell campus looking Northwest. Haskell Indian Nations University is a public tribal [2] land-grant university in Lawrence, Kansas, United States.Founded in 1884 as a residential boarding school for Native American children, [3] the school has developed into a university operated by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs [4] that offers both associate and baccalaureate degrees. [5]
In the early 1930s, the Bureau of Indian Affairs eliminated junior college courses and reduced the school's emphasis on intercollegiate athletics. After the 1938 season, Haskell dropped intercollegiate football altogether until 1946, when the program was revived, with the schedule mostly consisting of military academys, forts, and junior colleges.
The Haskell Indian Nations Fighting Indians are the athletic teams that represent Haskell Indian Nations University, located in Lawrence, Kansas, in intercollegiate sports as a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing as an NAIA Independent within the Continental Athletic Conference since the 2015–16 academic year.
Haskell is the only federally run university that exclusively accepts members of tribal nations. It is one of two higher education institutions overseen by the Department of Indian Education.
The 1963 Haskell Indians football team represented the Haskell Institute—now known as Haskell Indian Nations University—as a member of the Interstate Conference during the 1963 junior college football season. Led by first-year head coach H. E. (Lew) Llewellyn, the Indians compiled an overall record of 1–6–1 with a mark of 1–3 in ...
A congressional investigation of reports that Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence has disregarded sexual assaults of students is underway, according to a July letter from lawmakers.
Albert E. Herrnstein was the first head coach at Haskell. The Haskell Indian Nations Fighting Indians football program was a college football team that represented Haskell Indian Nations University. The team consisted of three coaches that have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame: John H. Outland, Matty Bell, and William Henry ...
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