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The Story of Kansas City, Kansas

"Citizenship"

You remember that the Shawnees, the Delawares, and the Wyandots were not natives here.  They had moved from their homes in the East so that white people could have their land.  Such Indians were known as Emigrant Tribes.

[Annotation:  Information in following table provided at http://www.wyandot.org/tribes.htm and links following table are additional Internet sites for research.]

Tribe	Year in Kansas	State of Departure
Shawnee	1825	Missouri, Ohio, Indiana
Miami	1827	Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
Delaware	1828	Ohio, Indiana
Peoria, Kaskaskia, Wea, Pinankeshaw	1832	Illinois
Kickapoo	1832	Missouri, Illinois, Indiana
Ottawa	1833	Illinois, Wisconsin
Cherokee	1835	Georgia
Iowa	1836	Iowa
Chippewa	1836	Michigan
Pottawatomie	1836	Indiana
Sac and Fax	1837	Iowa and Wisconsin
Wyandot	1843	Ohio and Michigan

Kansas Native American Genealogy

Kansas Plains and Emigrant Tribes

TALES OUT OF SCHOOL
from the Center for Great Plains Studies/Emporia State University

You may remember, too, that the government had promised that the new country would belong to the Indians as long as the grass grew and the water ran.  It promised also that they would never be a part of any territory or state.

The grass was still growing and the water running when the white people complained, "It isn't fair that 34,000 Indians should own so much space and ride over miles and miles of it just to hunt buffalo."

The Wyandot leaders wished to sell their land to the whites.  They wanted to become citizens of the United States and to have charge of their own affairs.  From early times the members of the tribe had owned everything in common.  The white people would get what they wanted anyway, they thought.  The Indians did not want another removal, so they set about organizing a territory.

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