The Enduring Indians Of Kansas

Author : Joseph B. Herring
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700605886
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Enduring Indians of Kansas written by Joseph B. Herring and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 1990-07-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cherokees' "Trail of Tears" and the forced migration of other Southern tribes during the 1830s and 1840s were the most notorious consequences of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy. Less well known is the fact that many tribes of the Old Northwest territory were also forced to surrender their lands and move west of the Mississippi River. By 1850, upwards of 10,000 displaced Indians had been settled "permanently" along the wooded streams and rivers of eastern Kansas. Twenty years later only a few hundred--mostly Kickapoos, Potawatomis, Chippewas, Munsees, Iowas, Foxes, and Sacs--remained. Joseph Herring's The Enduring Indians of Kansas recounts the struggle of these determined survivors. For them, the "end of Indian Kansas" was unacceptable, and they stayed on the lands that they had been promised were theirs forever. Offering a good counterpoint to Craig Miner's and William Unrau's The End of Indian Kansas (see opposite page), Herring shows the reader a shifting set of native perspectives and strategies. He argues that it was by acculturation on their own terms--by walking the fine line between their traditional ways and those of the whites--that these Indians managed to survive, to retain their land, and to resist the hostile intrusions of the white world. The story of their epic struggle to survive will place a new set of names in the pantheon of American Indian heroes.

Author : William E. Unrau
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806119656
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kansa Indians written by William E. Unrau and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After their first contacts with whites in the seventeenth century, the Kansa Indians began migrating from the eastern United States to what is now eastern Kansas, by way of the Missouri Valley. Settling in villages mostly along the Kansas River, they led a semi-sedentary life, raising corn and a few vegetables and hunting buffalo in the spring and fall. It was an idyllic existence-until bad, and then worse, things began to happen. William E. Unrau tells how the Kansa Indians were reduced from a proud people with a strong cultural heritage to a remnant forced against their will to take up the whites' ways. He gives a balanced but hard-hitting account of an important and tragic chapter in American history.

Author : H. Craig Miner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of Indian Kansas written by H. Craig Miner and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miner and Unrau show Kansas at midcentury to be a moral testing ground where the drama of Indian inheritance was played out. They related how railroad men, land speculators, and timber operations came to be firmly entrenched on Indian land in territorial Kansas.

Author : Eugene Fitch Ware
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Indian War of 1864 written by Eugene Fitch Ware and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Indian War of 1864" describes events of the Colorado War, fought from 1863 to 1865 between the Cheyenne and Arapaho Nations and white settlers and militia in the Colorado Territory and adjacent regions in Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming. The Kiowa and the Comanche played a minor role in actions that occurred in the southern part of the Territory along the Arkansas River, while the Sioux played a major role in actions that occurred along the South Platte River along the Great Platte River Road, the eastern portion of the Overland Trail. The United States government and Colorado Territory authorities participated through the Colorado volunteers, a citizen's militia while the United States Army played a minor role. The war was centered on the Colorado Eastern Plains.

Author : William E. Unrau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780877260424
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indians of Kansas written by William E. Unrau and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Ransley Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pioneer Narratives of the First Twenty-five Years of Kansas History written by Charles Ransley Green and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph B. Herring
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700631542
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kenekuk the Kickapoo Prophet written by Joseph B. Herring and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the Indians whose names we remember were warriors—Tecumseh, Black Hawk, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Geronimo—men who led their people in a desperate defense of their lands and their way of life. But as Alvin Josephy has written, “Some of the Indians’ greatest patriots died unsung by white men, and because their peoples were also obliterated, or almost so, their names are forgotten.” Kenekuk was one of those unsung patriots. Leader of the Vermillion Band Kickapoos and Potawatomis from the 1820s to 1852, Kenekuk is today little known, even in the Midwest where his people settled. His achievements as the political and religious leader of a small band of peaceful Indians have been largely verlooked. Yet his leadership, which transcended one of the most difficult periods in native American history—that of removal—was no less astute and courageous than that of the most warlike chief, and his teachings continued to guide his people long after his death. In his policies as well as his influence he was unique among American Indians. In this sensitive and revealing biography, Joseph Herring and explores Kenekuk’s rise to power and astute leadership, as well as tracing the evolution of his policy of acculturation. This strategy proved highly effective in protecting Kenekuk’s people against the increasingly complex, intrusive, and hostile white world. In helping his people adjust to white society and retain their lands without resorting to warfare or losing their identity as Indians, the Kickapoo Prophet displayed exceptional leadership, both secular and religious. Unlike the Shawnee Prophet and his brother Tecumseh, whose warlike actions proved disastrous for their people, Kenekuk always stressed peace and outward cooperation with whites. Thus, by the time of his death in 1852, Kenekuk had prepared his people for the challenge of maintaining a separate and unique Indian way of life within a dominant white culture. While other bands disintegrated because they either resisted cultural innovations or assimilated under stress, the Vermillion Kickapoos and Potawatomis prospered.

Author : Stephen J. Rockwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052119363X
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Affairs and the Administrative State in the Nineteenth Century written by Stephen J. Rockwell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-07 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen J. Rockwell analyzes the role of national administration in Indian affairs and other national policy areas related to westward expansion in the nineteenth century.

Author : Lela Jean McBride Brockway Tindle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opothleyaholo and the Loyal Muskogee written by Lela Jean McBride Brockway Tindle and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opothleyaholo, having enduring the Trail of Tears from Alabama and Georgia to Arkansas, saw that the new Confederate government's need for Indian land would lead to his people's demise. Though he distrusted it, he sided with the US and fought bravely but was deserted by US troops at his greatest need. He led his people on another march, to southern Kansas during the worst winter in memory. Most of the men, women, and children died in Wilson Country in 1862. A historian from the area, McBride tells the little known story. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Author : Clifford E. Trafzer
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816537178
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Indian Medicine Ways written by Clifford E. Trafzer and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book highlights American Indian spiritual leaders, miracle healings, and ceremonies that have influenced American history and shows their continued significance--Provided by publisher.