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Engraving of Fool Chief's village of the 1840s along the Kansas River by Pierre-Jean De Smet A disastrous flood in 1844 destroyed most of the land the Kaw had planted and left the tribe destitute. In 1846, the Kaw sold most of their remaining 2,000,000 acres (8,100 km 2 ) of land for $202,000 plus a 256,000 acres (1,040 km 2 ) reservation ...
The mouth of the Kansas River in the West Bottoms area of Kansas City (at a longitude of 94 degrees 36 minutes West) was the basis for Missouri's western boundary from Iowa to Arkansas when it became a state in 1821 (Kansas entered the Union in 1861.) South of the Missouri River, that longitude still remains the boundary between Kansas and ...
The Great Osage Trail, also known as the Osage Trace or the Kaw Trace, was one of the more well-known Native American trails through the countryside of the Midwest and Plains States of the U.S., pathways blazed by herds of buffalo or other migrating wildlife (Medicine Trails). Map of most of the Santa Fe Trail in 1845.
The river flows for approximately 359 miles (578 km) [2] from central Nebraska into Kansas, until its confluence with the Kansas River at Manhattan. It was given its name by the Kansa tribe of Native Americans, who lived at its mouth from 1780 to 1830, and who called it the Great Blue Earth River.
Detectives are investigating after a body was found Saturday in the Kansas River, according to police. Officers were called around noon to the eastern banks of the river between Interstate 670 and ...
Kansas: May 12, 1832: Kansa via French: kką:ze via Cansez [41] Named after the Kansas River, [42] [43] which in turn was named after the Kaw or Kansas tribe. [9] The name seems to be connected to the idea of "wind". [44] Kentucky: April 28, 1728: Iroquoian (see Meaning and notes) Originally referring to the Kentucky River.
Concordia is a city in and the county seat of Cloud County, Kansas, United States. [1] It is located along the Republican River in the Smoky Hills region of the Great Plains in North Central Kansas. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 5,111. [4] [5] Concordia is home of the Cloud County Community College and the Nazareth ...
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