emigrant native americans in franklin county kansas
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A collection of photos and maps relating to the emigrant Native Americans who were relocated to Franklin County in the 1830s-1850s.TRANSCRIPT
Emigrant
Tribes
By the 1830s, the world of the native Kanza and Osage tribes changed.
The US government had a large problem. Native tribes in the East and Midwest had been defeated and pushed from their land
by incoming European settlers. The question was what to do with these
displaced Indians.
One idea was to create a Permanent Indian Frontier in what is now eastern
Kansas and Oklahoma. It was hoped that Indians located here would be undisturbed
by white settlers and the alcohol trade.
Large and small bands of Indians from the Great Lakes to Florida were removed to this
“Permanent Indian Frontier.”
The Cherokees called their brutal removal journey “The Trail of Tears,” since almost a
quarter of that tribe died on the way.
The Pottawatomies called it “The Trail of Death.”
Map of PIF
The Chippewas
of Black River and Swan Creek (Michigan)
Ash-E-Taa-Na-Quet or Clear Sky
(Francis McCoonse)
Ka-pah-us-ke,
(Robert McCoonse)
Grandson of the Old Chippewa
Chief In his youth, he was sent to school in
Nazareth, PA by the Moravian missionaries.
He’s wearing his uniform above.
Mary Alice McCoonse, Chippewa, right, dressed to go to school at Haskell
Institute in Lawrence, KS.
Her little sister, Matilda Maria, is left.
The Sac and
Fox
of the Upper Mississippi
Sac Chief Keokuk, or the Watchful
Fox
Keokuk’s son,
Wa-som-e-saw
called the
Reverend Moses
Keokuk in later
life.
Op-po-noos or
Appanoose or
Appan-oze-o-ke-mar
(The Hereditary
Chief, or He Who Was a Chief When
a Child)
Another image of Appanoose
George Bird King
painting of him
Two unidentified Sac and Fox men photographed by
A.W. Barker.
Two Sac and Fox bark
houses—one in Franklin County and
one in Oklahoma.
The
Munsees
William Henry Kilbuck
Munsee John Henry Kilbuck, (left) Moravian missionary in
Alaska
In 1900, the Chippewas and Munsees were given their land individually, and the tribes were dissolved.The two groups posed for a final photograph.
The I l l inois
and Wabash
Bands
The Peoria,
Kaskaskia,
Piankeshaw and
Wea
Chief Baptiste Peoria
The Ottawas
of Blanchard’s Fork,
Roche de Boeuf,
and Ocquanoxcey’s
Village
Ottawa Chief Pah-Tee
(John Wilson)
1813-April 9, 1870
Died on the journey to Oklahoma
Che-quah, Ottawa
Medicine Woman
(Aunt Jane Phelps)
1766-1886
Ottawa Chief Ko-twah-wun
(Joseph Badger King)
1822-1915
Na-qua ke-zhick--Noonday
(William Hurr)
trustee of Ottawa University,
translator for Sac & Fox
The route of the Ottawa
from the Great Lakes
through Ohio to Kansas
and then Oklahoma
By 1900, all the Nations had been
relocated to Oklahoma except the Munsees
and Chippewas