State

Kansas

In the record

Royce’s schedule records 47 cessions that lie at least partly in Kansas, from 1825 to 1881, under 33 treaties, agreements and acts. The peoples named most often are Delaware (Lenape), Meskwaki (Fox), Sauk (Sac), Osage, Kaw (Kanza) and 19 more.

The atlas records 3 broken treaty promises here, including Kaw (Kanza): annuities delayed, sale and removal from Kansas (1873), and Kaw Lake, Potawatomi Trail of Death (1838) and the disputed Yellow River treaty (1836) and Fort Wise (1861), Sand Creek (1864) and the Little Arkansas reparations (1865).

Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources.

Treaty or agreementTreaty under documented pressureRemoval treatyAct of CongressNot statedShapes from the 1899 federal record: approximate, not legal boundaries.

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