The End of Indian Kansas: A Study of Cultural Revolution, 1854-1871When Kansas became a U.S. territory in 1854 literally all of its land area was guaranteed by treaty to Indians. More than 10,000 Kickapoos, Delawares, Sacs, Foxes, Shawnees, Potawatomis, Kansas, Ottawas, Wyandots, and Osages, not to mention a number of smaller tribes, inhabited Kansas. By 1875 there were only a couple of bands left. The forced removal of thousands of Indians from eastern Kansas between 1854 and 1871 affected more Indians and occupied more government time than the celebrated exploits of the military against the more warlike western tribes. In this volume Miner and Unrau show Kansas at mid-century to be a moral testing ground where the drama of Indian disinheritance was played out. They relate how railroad men, land speculators, and timber operations came to be firmly entrenched on Indian land in territorial Kansas. They examine remarkable incongruities in Indian policy, land policy, law, and administration, pointing to specific cases in which legal maneuvers by the federal government--within the framework of treaties, statutes, and executive pronouncements--helped to insure the pattern of tribal destruction. Separate chapters deal with internal factionalism in the Indian tribes, the practice of government chief-making, and the "Indian Ring"--the sub rosa alliances influencing the treaty or sale process. The authors also include revealing portraits of the individuals, from territorial governors to railroad officials, who helped engineer the end of Indian Kansas. |
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The Capitalization of Nature | 25 |
The Indian Ring | 55 |
The Government Chief | 81 |
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A. B. Greenwood allotments attorney August Bourassa ceded Charles Mix Cherokee Cherokee Neutral Civil claims Clarke Commissioner of Indian Congress D. N. Cooley December Delaware Agency Delaware lands Ewing February Federal Records Federal Records Center Fifty Million Acres Fox Agency Gates GIC-ID Guthrie Historical Society ibid Indian Affairs Indian agents Indian Commissioners Indian Kansas Indian lands Indian Office Indian policy Indian reserves Indian ring Indian Territory Interior Department James James Harlan January John Kansa Indians Kansas State Historical Kansas Territory Kappler Keokuk Kickapoo Lawrence leadership Leavenworth LR-ID LR-OIA Manypenny March Missouri River National Intelligencer Navarre negotiated Neosho Agency November October Osage lands Ottawa political Pomeroy Potawatomi Agency Prairie Band removal Sac and Fox Samuel Pomeroy SCLS-ID sell Senate settlers Shawnee Shawnee Agency Sidney Clarke speculators squatters Stevens Thomas Murphy timber tion Topeka traders tribal tribe Tymany Washington William Dole wrote Wyandot