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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 ...
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 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 .
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.
White Plume came back from Washington convinced that the future of the Kaw, and his own future, was accommodation with the United States. Already eastern Indians were being expelled from the east and squatting on Kaw lands. The Missouri River was a highway to fur trappers and traders heading for the Rocky Mountains.
Kansas placenames of Native American origin (16 P) Kickapoo (4 C, 12 P) N. Native American museums in Kansas (6 P) Native American tribes in Kansas (12 C, 24 P) O ...
The Kansas Historical Society is contracting with the University of Kansas Center for Research to search the site of the Shawnee Indian Methodist Manual Labor School, located in Fairway. It had 16 ...
Although the objective in the 1860s to the 1890s was to convert Native Americans to Catholicism, that is no longer their mission. According to a 2023 statement, the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, “We, the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, are in the process of educating ourselves about the St. Stephen’s Mission School.