The End of Indian Kansas by H. Craig Miner

Chapman (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1983). Indians and Archaeology of Missouri by Carl H.My thanks to Sam Rushay, Supervisory Archivist, Truman Presidential Library Laurie Austin, audiovisual archivist, Truman Presidential Library Jake Ersland, Director of Archival Operations, National Archives at Kansas City Tim Rives, Deputy Director of Archival Operations, National Archives at Kansas City and Kimberlee Ried, Public Affairs Specialist, Museum Programs Division, the National Archives at Kansas City, who researched the information for this land acknowledgment.Įnter your address in this interactive map of Traditional Native Lands to see who once lived where you are now.

Unrau, Wichita State University Endowment Association Distinguished Research Professor of History, has published widely in American Indian history.George Catlin’s 1896 Map of Indian Country, from the State Historical Society of Missouri.

Among his books are West of Wichita: Settling the High Plains of Kansas, 1865-1890 Wichita: The Early Years, 1865-1880 and Harvesting the High Plains: John Kriss and the Business of Wheat Farming, 1920-1950. Garvey Distinguished Professor of Business History at Wichita State University. 'There are no heroes in this narrative of fraud, corruption, and violence.' (Choice)Īuthor Biography: Craig Miner is Willard W. The authors also include revealing portraits of the individuals, from territorial governors to railroad officials, who helped engineer the end of Indian Kansas. 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. 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-heped to insure the pattern of tribal destruction. They relate how railroad men, land speculators, and timber operations came to be firmly entrenched on Indian land in territorial Kansas. In this volume Miner and Unrau show Kansas at midcentury to be a moral testing ground where the drama of Indian disinheritance was played out. The forced removal of thousands of Indians from eastern Kansas between 18 affected more Indians and occupied more government time than the celebrated exploits of the military against the more warlike western tribes. By 1875 there were only a couple of bands left.

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. territory in 1854 literally all of its land area was guaranteed by treaty to Indians.

The End of Indian Kansas by H. Craig Miner