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The Kaw Nation (or Kanza or Kansa) is a federally recognized Native American tribe in Oklahoma and parts of Kansas. The Kaw people historically lived in the central Midwestern United States . They have also been called the "People of the South wind", [ 2 ] "People of water", Kansa , Kaza , Konza , Conza , Quans , Kosa , and Kasa .
Kaw City is a city in eastern Kay County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 325 as of the 2020 United States census . [ 4 ] Kaw City was named for the Kanza Indians , called the Kaw by locals.
Map of Tribal Jurisdictional Areas in Oklahoma. This is a list of federally recognized Native American Tribes in the U.S. state of Oklahoma . With its 38 federally recognized tribes, [ 1 ] Oklahoma has the third largest numbers of tribes of any state, behind Alaska and California .
"The Kaw people are the indigenous people of Kansas," said James Pepper Henry, CEO of the First Americans Museum, slated to open in September in Oklahoma City, and vice chairman of the Kaw Nation.
Pepper Henry, who is also vice chair of the Kaw Nation Tribal Council, brought decades of museum experience to FAM. He came to the long-stalled OKC project from Tulsa's Gilcrease Museum , where he ...
In spring, Pepper Henry, an enrolled member of the Kaw Nation who is also Muscogee, shifted to the advisory role of director emeritus, with a focus on fundraising and special projects, for the museum.
He is an enrolled member of the Kaw Nation. Henry wrote about his lifelong connection with Oklahoma, Tulsa, and even Thomas Gilcrease himself. His maternal grandfather—Gilbert Pepper, a member of the Kaw tribe—had met his grandmother, Floy Childers, a Muscogee Creek, while both were attending Haskell Indian School in Lawrence, Kansas.
White Plume (ca. 1765—1838), also known as Nom-pa-wa-rah, Manshenscaw, and Monchousia, was a chief of the Kaw (Kansa, Kanza) Indigenous American tribe. He signed a treaty in 1825 ceding millions of acres of Kaw land to the United States. Most present-day members of the Kaw Nation of Oklahoma trace their lineage back to him.