Courtney King

Courtney Eddy King is a citizen of the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma who lives and works at the confluence of the Kansas and Wakarusa River Valleys in present-day Lawrence, KS; the homeland of many Tribes, including the Kanza, Osage, Wichita, and Pawnee Peoples. Courtney graduated from Haskell Indian Nations University with a B.S. in Environmental Science in 2023 and is currently the Program & Land Stewardship Manager for the USDA Tribal College Equity Grant at Haskell. She is also a M.S. student and graduate teaching assistant in Geography at The University of Kansas, where she will be studying the effects of cultural fires on native plant communities within the Wakarusa River Valley. Courtney’s work centers Indigenous Science and Traditional Ecological Knowledges to holistically steward and restore native ecosystems of present-day Kansas and beyond. Through research, advocacy, and action, she hopes her work (re)instills a sense of duty in caring for the land as Indigenous Peoples have since time immemorial.