Indian Removal Act Removed Indians from the East and moved them west of the Mississippi river
Reasons for Indian Removal America’s desire for land New immigrants Birth rate rising Economy – based on Agriculture Fear of European Countries invading (Barrier)
What did Native Americans do? Trail of Tears -Protect what was left of their land -assimilate -Sold parts of their land to the United States Government -control over what land was left -Refused to move, even if it meant going to war Eventually sent to reservations in Kansas
Tribes in Kansas Native Kansas Tribes Emigrant Kansas Tribes Cheyenne,Arapaho,Apache,Comanche,Kiowa,Pawnee, Kansa, Wichita and Osage Ote,Missouri,Iowa,Sauk and Fox,Kickapoo,Delaware, Wyandot,Shawnee, Chippewa,Ottawa,Peoria, Kaskaskia,Wea,Piankashaw, Pottawatomie,Miami,New York Indians,Cherokee,Quapaw
Tribes in Kansas Native Kansas Tribes Emigrant Kansas Tribes
Emigrant Indian Experience When tribes arrived many found the conditions to be unfamiliar and difficult Potawatomi had lived on a diet of mainly fish in their native lands Miami had been traders Shawnee and Ottawa were hunters -300 of the 600 Ottawa died the first year How did the Native tribes of Kansas feel about these other tribes coming into their old lands?