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Title
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Indian Reservations in Kansas and the Extinguishment of Their Title
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Description
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Extensive and detailed article, with map, about the removal of the Indian tribes from the East to Kansas and the west and their loss of titles to land there as well. Description of parts played by federal government officials (Andrew Jackson, John Calhoun, et al.), Indian agents (William Clarke, Isaac McCoy, et al.), and tribe-by-tribe descriptions of the following Indian tribes: Kansas Indians, Shawnee Indians, Delaware Indians, Ottawa Indians, Kickapoo Indians, Quapaw Indians, Cherokee Indians, Chippewa Indians, Iowa Indians, Sac Indians, Fox Indians, Pottawatomie Indians, New York Indians, Miami Indians, Wyandotte Indians, and Munsee Indians, etc.
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Date
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1904
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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SC25 Kickapoo Reservation Survey Field Notes Finding Aid
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Description
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This collection consists of eight pages of handwritten notes describing a survey for the demarcation of Indian reservations in what are now Doniphan, Atchison, and Leavenworth counties in northeastern Kansas. Notes include a brief description of the survey's purpose, Public Land Surveying System (PLSS) township-range-section location data, surveyors' measurements, and physical descriptions of the benchmarks, landmarks, and monuments used by the surveyor. Pages are unnumbered.
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Date
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1854~
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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Map Illustrating the Plan of the Defences of the Western Frontier
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Description
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Map of United States territory west of the Mississippi River, including lands making up present-day Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma. Lands claimed and ceded by various Native American tribes, and lands assigned to tribes are indicated, as well as proposed forts and railroads.
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Date
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1838
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Map Illustrating the Plan of the Defences of the Western and North Western Frontier
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Description
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Map of the areas that would become the states of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana, indicating lands alotted by treaty to various Native American tribes. Includes rivers, towns, railroads, and forts.
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Date
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1837-10-31
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Kansas Annual Register's New Map of Kansas and the Gold Mines
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Description
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Map of Kansas and the area to become Colorado, showing the existing countries 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.
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Date
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1864-01-01
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Object Type
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Map
