the executive and legislative and judicial branches of the federal government of the United States | the Dhegiha dialect spoken by the Kansa |
North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776 | a state in midwestern United States, with capital Topeka |
| a river in northeastern Kansas; flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River |
| a member of the Siouan people of the Kansas river valley in Kansas |