Kansas Indian Tribes
See
Jicarilla.
The Arapaho ranged at one time
over much of the western part of this State. (See Wyoming.)
By the terms of the
Treaty of New Echota, the Cherokee obtained title to lands in
southeastern Kansas, part in one block known as the "Neutral land," and
the rest in a strip along the southern boundary of the State. These were
re-ceded to the United States Government in 1866. (See
Tennessee.)
Like the Arapaho they at one time ranged
over the western part of the State. (See South Dakota.)
In 1836 two bands of Chippewa
living in Michigan and known as the Swan Creek and Black River bands were given
a tract of territory on Osage River, Kans. They arrived in 1839. In 1866 they
agreed to remove to the Cherokee country in what is now Oklahoma and to unite
with that tribe. A small number of families of Chippewa living west of Lake
Michigan accompanied the Prairie Potawatomi to southwestern Iowa, but they were
either absorbed by the Potawatomi or subsequently separated from them. (See Minnesota.)
They ranged over the western part
of the State. (See
Texas.)
A strip of land in northeastern
Kansas was granted to the Delaware in 1829 and was again surrendered by treaties
made in
1854,
1860,
and
1866. In 1867 they agreed to take up their residence with the Cherokee
in Oklahoma. Four sections of land were, however, confirmed to a body of
Munsee ("Christian Indians"), who in turn sold it in 1857. This sale was
confirmed by the United States Government in 1858, and a new home was
found for these Indians among the Swan Creek and Black River Chippewa whom
they accompanied to the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma in 1866. Nevertheless,
a few Munsee have remained in the State. (See
New Jersey.)
The Foxes lived for a time on a
reservation in eastern Kansas but about 1859 returned to Iowa. (See Wisconsin.)
The remnants of these people were
assigned a reservation about the present Paola in 1832. In 1867 they removed to
the northeastern corner of the present Oklahoma, where they received lands which
had formerly belonged to the Quapaw. (See Illinois.)
This tribe was placed on a
reservation in northeastern Kansas in 1836, and part of them continued in this State and were allotted
land here in severalty, while the rest went to Oklahoma. (See
Iowa.)
Lands were set aside in Kansas in
1838 for some Iroquois, part of the Munsee, and remnants of Mahican and southern
New England Indians but only a few of the Indians involved moved to them. They
were later declared forfeited, and the rights of 32 bona fide Indian settlers
were purchased in 1873. (See Seneca and also New York,
Massachusetts,
Rhode
Island, and Connecticut.)
This was
one of the so-called Apache tribes. They lived in
Colorado and New Mexico and ranged over parts of Texas,
Oklahoma, and Kansas. (See Colorado.)
Name
derived from that of one of the major subdivisions; a
shortened form Kaw is about equally current. See
Kansa Tribe
Location.
A
reservation was granted this tribe in southeastern
Kansas in 1832, and though it was progressively reduced
in area, part of them have continued to live there down
to the present time. (See
Wisconsin.)
Signifying (in their own language) "principal people."
See Kiowa
Location
The name
is derived from that of the Kiowa and from the
circumstance that they spoke a dialect related to those
of the better-known Apache
tribes, though they had no other connection with them.
See
Kiowa Apache Location
The
remnant of this tribe accompanied the Oto when they
lived in this State. (See Missouri.)
A band of
Munsee or "Christian Indians" owned land in Kansas
between 1854 and 1859. (See Delaware in New Jersey, etc.)
The southeastern part of Kansas was claimed by the Osage and was
ceded by them to the United States Government in treaties made in 1825,
1865, and 1870. (See Missouri.)
The Oto
were on the eastern border of Kansas several times
during their later history. (See Nebraska.)
In 1831
two bands of Ottawa were granted lands on Marais des
Cygnes or Osage River. They relinquished these in 1846
and in 1862 agreed to allotment of land in severalty,
giving up their remaining lands. Further treaties
regarding these were made in
1867 and 1872. A few families of Ottawa accompanied
the Prairie Potawatomi when they removed from Wisconsin
to Iowa, but they were soon absorbed or else scattered.
Ottawa bands called Ottawa of Blanchard's Fork and
Ottawa of Roche de Boeuf occupied lands in Kansas
between 1832 and 1865 when they moved to Oklahoma. (See Michigan.)
A part of
the Pawnee occupied the valley of the Republican Fork of
Kansas River. (See
Nebraska.)
In 1837 the United States
Government entered into a treaty with five bands of Potawatomi living in the
State of Indiana by which it was agreed to convey to them by patent a tract of
country on Osage River, southwest of the Missouri, in the present State of
Kansas. This was set apart the same year and the Indians, the Potawatomi of the
Woods, moved into it in 1840, but they ceded it back in 1846 and were given a
reserve between the
Shawnee and the
Delaware, in the
present Shawnee County, which they occupied in 1847. By a series of
treaties, culminating in the
Treaty of Chicago, 1833, the Potawatomi west
of Lake Michigan surrendered their lands and received a large tract in
southwestern Iowa. They were accompanied by a few
Chippewa and Ottawa. In
1846 this reserve was re-ceded to the United States Government and in
1847-48 the Indians, now known as the Prairie Potawatomi, moved to lands
in Kansas just east of the lands of the Potawatomi of the Woods. Michigan
Potawatomi did not come to this place until 1850. About the end of the
Civil War some of the Prairie band moved back to Wisconsin but the greater
part of them remained and accepted lands in severalty. In 1869 the
Potawatomi of the Woods began a movement to secure lands in Oklahoma, and
by 1871 most of them had gone thither. (See
Michigan.)
Between 1833 and 1867 lands in
the southeastern tip of Kansas belonged to their reserve in Indian Territory
(Oklahoma), but in the latter year they ceded this back to the Government. (See
Arkansas.)
After leaving Iowa, the Sauk and
Fox Indians occupied a reserve in
the eastern part of Kansas, but about 1859 the Foxes returned to Iowa, and
in 1867 the Sauk ceded their Kansas territories and moved to Oklahoma.
(See Wisconsin.)
Seneca Indians were joint owners
with other tribes of land in the extreme southwestern part of Kansas. They ceded
this to the United States Government in 1867. (See New York.)
In 1825 the Shawnee residing in
Missouri received a grant of land along the south side of Kansas River, west of
the boundary of Missouri. In 1831 they were joined by another body of Shawnee
who had formerly lived at Wapaghkonnetta and on Hog Creek, Ohio. In 1854 nearly all of this land was
re-ceded to the United States Government and the tribe moved to Indian
Territory, the present Oklahoma. (See Tennessee.)
The Wyandot purchased land in
eastern Kansas on Missouri River from the Delaware in 1843 and parted with it
again in 1850. A few Wyandot also held title to land along with other tribes on
the border of Oklahoma and re-ceded it along with them in 1867. (See Ohio.)
Additional Resources
Notes About the Book:
Source: The Indian Tribes of North America, by John R. Swanton, 1953, Bureau of
American Ethnology, Bulletin 145, US Government Printing Office, Washington DC.
Online Publication: The manuscript was scanned and then ocr'd. Minimal editing
has been done, and readers can and should expect some errors in the textual
output.
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