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Kansa at Kansas Agency, Kansas (1862)

A March 1862 Kansa supplement set how settlers on the Kansa diminished reserve would be paid with tribal certificates of indebtedness.

Signed
March 13, 1862
Senate
Ratified

What happened

The Kansa (Kaw) and the United States made this agreement at the Kansas Agency, Kansas, on March 13, 1862, to amend a treaty of October 5, 1859. That treaty had been ratified by the President on November 17, 1860, with a Senate amendment that the Kansa chiefs accepted on October 4, 1860.

Article 1 deals with settlers. People who settled on the diminished reserve between December 2, 1856 and October 5, 1859 were to have the value of their improvements appraised by the Secretary of the Interior. Certificates of indebtedness issued "by said tribe" would cover the appraisals, up to $15,000 in total. Similar certificates covered earlier settlers' claims, up to $14,421, and claims approved under the 1859 treaty's fifth article, up to $36,394.47. All such certificates would be "receivable as cash" in payment for land bought or entered on the part of the first assigned reservation outside the diminished reserve.

Article 2 records that the tribe, wishing to thank missionary and teacher Thomas S. Huffaker, asked the Secretary to convey him the half-section on which he had lived since 1851, if he paid the appraised value at not less than $1.75 an acre.

The Kansa chiefs agreed to Senate amendments on February 26, 1863. The treaty was proclaimed March 16, 1863.

Good to know. This supplement involved no Kansa land cession.

Summarized with AI assistance from 3 sources and checked against their words; not yet reviewed by historians or by the nations. Report an error

What the sources say, and how this was checked

Well supported by the sources below.

  1. certificates of indebtedness by said tribe shall be issued by him to each of such persons for an amount equal to the appraisementTribal Treaties Database (Oklahoma State University): Kansa at Kansas Agency, Kansas (1862)
  2. all such certificates shall be receivable as cash, to the amount for which they may be issued, in payment for lands purchasedTribal Treaties Database (Oklahoma State University): Kansa at Kansas Agency, Kansas (1862)
  3. at a rate not less than one dollar and seventy-five cents per acreTribal Treaties Database (Oklahoma State University): Kansa at Kansas Agency, Kansas (1862)

Research notes. This account is based on the treaty text alone, so it describes the signed terms, not what happened afterward. The supplement contains no new Kansa land cession; the certificates it describes were debts of the tribe, redeemable in land outside the diminished reserve. The 1859 treaty it amends is a separate entry. This supplement was ratified February 6, 1863, and proclaimed March 16, 1863.

What happened next

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Sources

  1. treaties.okstate.edu/treaties/treaty-with-the-kansa-indians-1862-0829reference work
    Treaty with the Kansa Indians, 1862 Mar. 13, 1862. | 12 Stats., 1221.

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