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Kaw (Kanza) · kaw · kanza · kansa · Kanza · Kansas · Konze · Kaw NationKaw (Kanza)
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In the record
The United States made 7 treaties and agreements that name Kaw (Kanza) as a party, from Kansa at St. Louis (1815) to Kansa at Kansas Agency, Kansas (1862).
C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 5 cessions of land from Kaw (Kanza): about 23 million acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. 2 of them came through treaties made under documented pressure. The largest was Land of the Kansas in Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska, ceded 1825 (area 124), about 22 million acres, ceded under Kansa at St. Louis (1825).
The atlas records 1 broken treaty promise involving Kaw (Kanza): Kaw (Kanza): annuities delayed, sale and removal from Kansas (1873), and Kaw Lake.
Today, Kaw Nation carries this history, as their own pages or research records say.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.
The record over time
Circles are land the United States recorded as ceded, sized by acres and colored by how it was taken. Bars are treaties, broken promises, court cases and land returns.
Names
Each name shows where it comes from. A nation’s own name is shown as the nation writes it.
Self-names
- KanzaKanza (Latin)
Official names
Land recorded as ceded
- Treaty or agreement23 million
Estimate from Royce’s maps; overlapping cessions counted once. Not a survey or legal measure.
5 cessions. Follow Kaw (Kanza) through the years on the map
Who is doing the work
This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:
Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
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Connections
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Land recorded in this nation’s name 66
- Land kept by the United States in Illinois, 1795 (area 27)1795matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land kept by the United States in Indiana, 1795 (area 25)1795matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Illinois and Indiana, ceded 1795 (area 26)1795matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Illinois, ceded 1795 (area 24)1795matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Indiana and Ohio, ceded 1795 (area 11)1795matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Indiana, ceded 1795 (area 16)1795matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Indiana, ceded 1795 (area 17)1795matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Michigan, ceded 1795 (area 21)1795matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Michigan, ceded 1795 (area 22)1795matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Michigan, ceded 1795 (area 23)1795matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Ohio, ceded 1795 (area 12)1795matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Ohio, ceded 1795 (area 13)1795matched by the Forest Service, under review
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- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Ohio, ceded 1795 (area 14)1795matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Ohio, ceded 1795 (area 15)1795matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Ohio, ceded 1795 (area 18)1795matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Ohio, ceded 1795 (area 19)1795matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Ohio, ceded 1795 (area 20)1795matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Delaware, Eel River and others in Illinois, ceded 1803 (area 47)1803matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Ohio, ceded 1805 (area 53)1805matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Ohio, ceded 1805 (area 54)1805matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Delaware, Eel River and others in Indiana, ceded 1805 (area 56)1805matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Michigan, ceded 1817 (area 89)1807matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Ohio, ceded 1817 (area 90)1807matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Ohio, ceded 1817 (area 91)1807matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Chippewa, Ottawa and others in Michigan and Ohio, ceded 1807 (area 66)1807matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Potawatomi in Michigan, ceded 1827 (area 135)1807matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Potawatomi in Michigan, ceded 1827 (area 136)1807matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Potawatomi in Michigan, ceded 1827 (area 137)1807matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Chippewa, Ottawa and others in Ohio, ceded 1808 (area 70)1808matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Delaware, Eel River Miami and others in Illinois and Indiana, ceded 1809 (area 73)1809matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Delaware, Eel River Miami and others in Indiana, ceded 1809 (area 71)1809matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Delaware, Eel River Miami and others in Indiana, ceded 1809 (area 72)1809matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land kept by the United States in Wisconsin, 1816 (area 78a)1816matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Chippewa, Ottawa and others in Illinois, ceded 1816 (area 78)1816matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Indiana and Ohio, ceded 1817 (area 87)1817matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Michigan and Ohio, ceded 1817 (area 88)1817matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Potawatomi in Illinois and Indiana, ceded 1818 (area 98)1818matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Chippewa, Ottawa and others in Indiana and Michigan, ceded 1821 (area 117)1821matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Chippewa, Ottawa and others in Michigan, ceded 1833 (area 188)1821matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Potawatomi in Michigan, ceded 1827 (area 138)1821matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Kansas in Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska, ceded 1825 (area 124)1825as named in the 1899 record
- Land of the Potawatomi in Indiana, ceded 1826 (area 132)1826matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Potawatomi in Indiana, ceded 1826 (area 133)1826matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Chippewa, Ottawa and others in Michigan, ceded 1833 (area 189)1827matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Potawatomi in Michigan, recorded 1827 (area 139)1827matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Potawatomi in Michigan, recorded 1827 (area 140)1827matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Potawatomi in Indiana, ceded 1828 (area 146)1828matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Potawatomi in Michigan, ceded 1828 (area 145)1828matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Chippewa, Ottawa and others in Illinois, ceded 1829 (area 148)1829matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Chippewa, Ottawa and others in Michigan, ceded 1833 (area 190)1832matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Potawatomi (band of the Prairie and Kankakee) in Illinois, ceded 1832 (area 177)1832matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Potawatomi in Indiana, ceded 1832 (area 180)1832matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Potawatomi in Indiana, ceded 1836 (area 223)1832matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Potawatomi in Indiana, ceded 1836 (area 224)1832matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Potawatomi in Indiana, ceded 1836 (area 225)1832matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Potawatomi in Indiana, recorded 1832 (area 222)1832matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Chippewa, Ottawa and others in Illinois and Wisconsin, ceded 1833 (area 187)1833matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Chippewa, Ottawa and others in Iowa, ceded 1846 (area 265)1833matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Chippewa, Ottawa and others in Kansas, ceded 1846 (area 266)1846matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Kansa in Kansas, ceded 1859 (area 421)1846as named in the 1899 record
- Land of the Kansas in Kansas, ceded 1846 (area 264)1846as named in the 1899 record
- Land of the Potawatomi in Kansas, recorded 1846 (area 433)1846matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Potawatomi in Kansas, recorded 1846 (area 434)1846matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Reservation of the Kansa in Kansas (area 420)1846as named in the 1899 record
- Land of the Potawatomi in Oklahoma, ceded 1891 (area 506)1867matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Reservation of the Kansa in Oklahoma (area 535)1872as named in the 1899 record
Party to 7
- Kansa at St. Louis (1815)1815
- Kansa at Sora Kansas Creek, Southwest of Fort Osage (1825)1825
- Kansa at St. Louis (1825)1825
- Osage, Kansa, and Shawnee [Documents Accompanying the Message Transmitting the Osage, Kansa, and Shawnee Treaties, 1825, to the 19th Congress] (1825)1825
- Kansa at Methodist Mission, Kansas Country (1846)1846
- Kansa at Kansas Agency, Kansas Territory (1859)1859
- Kansa at Kansas Agency, Kansas (1862)1862
Named in 1
Present-day governments that carry this history 1
Sources
- kawnation.gov/language/reference work
Kanza (also known as Kaw, Kansa, Konze, or Kansas)
- plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.na.054.htmlreference work
The Kaw, or Kanza, Indians refer to themselves collectively as the Kaw Nation.
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