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Title: SC149 Indian Territory Documents
Description: The Indian Territory Documents is an artificial collection that consists of items regarding financial and property transactions in Native American territories and agencies during the 1850s. Included in this collection are correspondence and promissory notes.
Date: 1851/1857
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Being Shawnee in Territorial Kansas
Description: In-depth article about the Shawnee Reserve, Kansas-Nebraska act in 1854, missionaries, and white settlers encroaching on Indian lands.
Date: 2004
Object Type: Newsletter Article

Title: Indian Tribes, Reservations and Settlements in the United States
Description: Map of the United States keyed to show reservations allotted in part, reservations allotted and open, and tribal lands, as well as colonies in Nevada and rancherias in California. Inset map of Alaska indicates tribal areas.
Date: 1943
Object Type: Map

Title: Death at Jackson County's Doorstep: Potawatomi Trail of Death Crossed Jackson County
Description: Article describes the Potawatomi Indians and their forced removal from northern Indiana to eastern Kansas in the fall of 1838. Nearly 1,000 tribe members were forced to walk the Trail of Death from Indiana to Kansas with 42 dying along the way. The Potawatomi are members of the Algonquian family of North American Indians. "Most of the Trail of Death descendants are members of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation with headquarters in Shawnee, Oklahoma." Includes images and diary entries.
Date: 2007
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Northeast Corner of Kansas Territory
Description: Map showing area immediately west of the Missouri River, in present-day Doniphan, Atchison, and Leavenworth counties, Kansas. The right-hand side of the page is north. Map shows Indian lands, including the Iowa lands, Iowa Reserve, Sac and Fox lands recently ceded, Kickapoo Reserve, and "Half Breed lands" (i.e. Indians of mixed descent). Indicates many creeks and some towns (e.g. Fort Leavenworth, Atchison, Doniphan, Saint Joseph). The agency is indicated near Wolf River. Ink on lined paper, signed by Major Daniel Vanderslice, who served as Indian Agent from 1853 until Lincoln became President in 1861.
Date: 1854
Object Type: Map

Title: U. States' Indian Frontier in 1840, Shewing [sic] Positions of the Tribes that have been removed west of the Mississippi
Description: Map of areas assigned to various tribes just west of the states of Missouri and Arkansas as of approximately 1840. Approximate locations of other tribes in the West (U.S. and a portion of Canada) are indicated. Some of the tribes named in the map are Kickapoo, Shawnee, Delaware, Peoria and Kaskaskia, Piankashaw and Wea, Oneida, Tuscarora, Quapaw, Seneca, Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Chocktaw, Chickasaw, Osage, Arapaho, Comanche, Pawnee, Kiowa, Shoshone, Cheyenne, Crow, Dakota, Omaha and Oto, Sac and Fox.
Date: 1841
Object Type: Map

Title: MacLean and Lawrence's Sectional Map of Kansas Territory
Description: Continuation of title: Compiled from the U.S. Surveys by C. P. Wiggin.Photocopy of a map of Kansas Territory including the counties of Leavenworth, Johnson, Lykins, Franklin, Douglass, Jefferson, and Atchison. Shows Indian reservations, some towns and roads, with townships and ranges noted.
Date: 1857-04
Object Type: Map

Title: "If the Union Wins, We Won't Have Anything Left": The Rise and Fall of the Southern Cherokees of Kansas
Description: Maps, photos, and article about the Cherokees of Kansas and their settlement of the Cherokee Neutral Lands and Chetopa, Kansas, area. Includes a table "Heads of Cherokee Families Identified as Living on Tribal Lands in Kansas" (p. 162) and another table "Kansas Residents Who Enlisted in Confederate Cherokee Military Service" (p. 170).
Date: 2007
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Gunn's New Map of Kansas and the Gold Mines
Description: Map of Kansas and the area to become Colorado, showing the existing counties of Kansas and Indian reservations. Includes inset "Routes from the Missouri River to the Kansas Gold Mines." Compiled from the original field notes by O. B. Gunn.
Date: 1859
Object Type: Map

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