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NATIVE AMERICANS in what would be Eastern Kansas

11,000 BC:
Kansas Archeology
200 BC to 500 AD:
HOPEWELL people lived in an extensive area. They farmed, hunted, and gathered food. Some crafted with copper and silver. (1: p 3)
Land around the Missouri and Kansas Rivers had no precious metals, but had an Oak and Hickory forest (per source 2).
The Hopewell people are known for their trading and their mound building. They had at least one village in Kansas. More on the Kansas City Hopewell civilization, as well as early people living in Missouri.
400 to 1500 AD:
WOODLANDS people lived in the area. They farmed, hunted, and gathered food. (1: p 3)
In the 1600s, British and French settlers pushed Native American residents westward. The current state of West Virginia records some of this history.

The KAW (KANSA) Nation

1500 to 1828:
KANSA (Wind) people lived in the area. They farmed, hunted, and gathered food. (1: p 3) Staab speculates that the Kansa once may have lived along the Ohio River, but by the early 1700s French traders were trading manufactured goods to the Kansa for hides. The Kansa hunted along the Kansas (Kaw) River valley and lived north of the Kaw on the Missouri River. (3, pp 271-3)

* Kansa * Two Rivers * History of Wyandotte County KS
* KAW Mission, Council Grove * Kaw Mission, Council Grove * Kaw Nation Today * Articles * Short history of the Kaw * More on NativeNet

The DELAWARE (LENAPE) Nation

Also called the Lenape, the DELAWARE nation was included in the people pushed west from their original territories. In 1829, they were removed from Ohio to Kansas City area.

• "By 1600, organized tribes such as the Delaware and Shawnee had moved into present-day West Virginia."
• Henry Tiblow was a Delaware resident of the Bonner Springs area in the 1800s who operated a ferry across the Kaw River.
• In the 1830s, Moses GRINTER (Delaware) built and lived in Grinter House, to the east of Edwardsville
• HALF-MOON, a Delaware Chief, was the original owner of the land where downtown Edwardsville now stands.
• John Gill PRATT was a Baptist missionary at the Delaware Baptist Mission, on the future site of Edwardsville, KS.
• The White Church members
• Thunder Mountain Lenap� Nation
• Delaware history
• The Delaware Indians, A Brief History
• The Delaware in Ohio
• Lenape of Pennsylvania (1500s)

Wyandot, Delaware, and Shawne time line
"By 1600, organized tribes such as the Delaware and Shawnee had moved into present-day West Virginia."
By 1701: the Huron were known, in northern Ohio, as Wyandot.
1823: The SHAWNEE were one of the nations removed from Ohio into Kansas in 1823.
There are three tribes of Shawnee: the Absentee, Eastern and Loyal.
Collection of treaties of the United Tribe of the Shawnee.
1830: Shawnee Indian Mission, Kansas City
1843: Delaware & Wyandot agreement
1843: Wyandott Nation was removed from Ohio to the Kansas City area
1860s: Loyal Shawnee joined the Cherokee.
First Nation Compact Histories of the Shawnee and the Huron
Wyandot Nation of Kansas

Multiple Tribe Sites

The Historic Indians of Kansas
Native American Interactive Genealogy - local and family history research
First Nations Histories
Ohio's Historic Indians

The OSAGE NATION

Osage Sketch

LEWIS AND CLARK - 1804

Current travel along the Lewis and Clark Expodition

FRENCH FUR TRADERS Came West Along the Missouri River From ST. LOUIS And Along the Kaw River - 1800s

CHOUTEAU, Francois and Bereniece - The Chouteau Collection (St. Louis family's fur trade business info) (Kansas City area, 1821)

CHOUTEAU history, including "Four Houses", 20 miles above the mouth of the Kaw River.
Fur Trader History including the Chouteaus

CHOUTEAU, Cyprien (1802-1879), a younger son of Pierre Chouteau (1758-1849), a St. Louis fur trader. His elder brother, Auguste Pierre, known as A. P. Chouteau (1786-1839), traded with the Osage. Cyprian built trading post with his brother Francis on Wolf Creek (now in Bonner Springs), and later one near Muncie. (This information was from the Chouteau Collection)

CHOUTEAU, Francis Guesseau (1813-1874), a younger son of Pierre Chouteau (1758-1849), a St. Louis fur trader. For a time Francis and Cyprien worked with their elder brother Auguste Pierre ("A.P.") Chouteau (1786-1839) who had left his wife Sophie Labbadie Chouteau behind in St. Louis in 1822, to set up Berthold & Chouteau "Osage Outfit" trading posts among the Osage in present Oklahoma. Francis and Cyprien built the "Four Houses" trading post on Wolf Creek (now in Bonner Springs). Flooded out in 1826. (This information was from the Chouteau Collection)

LAND TRAVEL - 1820s

Exploring the Santa Fe Trail

NATIVE AMERICAN EMIGRATION - 1800s

Kansas Plains and Emigrant Tribes
Cutler's Indian History (pub. 1883)

Moses GRINTER operated a ferry across the Kaw River near the current area of Muncie, KS, in the 1830s. His wife, Annie Marshall, was 1/2 Delaware Indian. (Was Frederick H. Grinter their son? If so, please contact Mari Nielsen, at [email protected])

Henry TIBLOW was a Delaware educated at the Shawnee Mission. Henry translated for the Wyandot and Delaware in the 1840s, and operated the ferry just west of Four Houses (Wolf Creek and the Kansas River) in the 1860s. The town of Tiblow was named for Henry Tiblow.

KANSAS - 1850s

Cutler's Pre-Territorial History (pub. 1883)
Cutler's History of the State of Kansas (pub. 1883)
Kansas Sights: Kansas History
Settling Kansas, L. Nelson
Railroads in Kansas