While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
The Kansas are an offshoot of the Osages, whom they resemble in many respects.
In 1673 they were placed on Marquette's map as on the Missouri, above the
Osages. After the cession of Louisiana, a treaty was made with them by the
United States. They were then on the river Kansas at the mouth of the Saline,
having been forced back from the Missouri by the Sioux, and numbered about 1,500
in 130 earthen lodges. Some of their chiefs visited Washington as early as 1820.
In 1825 ceded their lands on the Missouri, retaining a reservation on the
Kansas, where they were constantly subjected to attacks from the Pawnees, and on
their hunts from other tribes, so that they lost rapidly in numbers. In 1846
they again ceded their lands, and a new reservation of 80,000 acres on the
Neosho in Kansas assigned them; but this also soon becoming overrun by settlers,
and as they would not cultivate it themselves, it was sold, and the proceeds
invested for their benefit and for pro viding a new home among the Osages. The
tribe in 1850 numbered 1,300; in 1860, 800; and in 1875 had dwindled to 516.
Under the guidance of Orthodox Friends they are now cultivating 460 acres, and
have broken more than as much again. They raised among other things 12,000
bushels of corn; 70 of them are regular church attendants, and 54 of their
children attend school.
Descriptive Catalogue, Photographs Of North American Indians. United States Geological Survey
of the Territories, 1877 by W. H. Jackson, Photographer of the Survey,
F. V. Hayden, U. S. Geologist.
