1. Invasions & Encounters

2. Spread religion
Conquer new lands
Establish trade routes
Obtain resources (gold/spices)
Expand knowledge
1st Spanish
2nd French
3rd British
What motivated the early explorers?
European Explorers to Kansas

3. Spanish Explorer Francisco Vazquez de Coronado
Serve in gov’t of New Spain
Stories of 7 cities of gold
Indian slave “Turk”
Came to Kansas in search of Quivira
Came into contact with Wichita

4. Coronado returned to Mexico
Expedition failure
Trial and found guilty of mistreating native peoples

5. French Explorers Claude Charles Du Tisne` Sent to contact Comanche
Failed to reach Comanche
Contacted Osage and Pawnee
Traded guns and ammo for information

6. Sent 4 years after Du Tisne
Purpose to establish friendship with Kansa and Plains Apache
Gain control over Kansas
Set up Fort Orleans
Etienne Veniard de Bourgmont

7. Overtime unable to give Indians what they wanted
Indians became interested in British goods
Tension between French and Indians
Set up Fort Cavaginal to regulate fur trade.

8. Indians were to give allegiance to king/queen
Rights of native peoples ignored
Monarchy
Sovereign rights

9. Review Quiz Did not live amongst Indians Spanish
Provided horses NOT guns
Lived with Indians
Married Indian women
Provided guns and ammo
Spanish
French

10. Stop Both Brought new diseases killing entire villages
New products such as metal (guns), tools, and cloth
Increased tension among tribes
Stop

11. Indian Relocation Isaac McCoy (1828)
Create Indian state where natives could live
Gradually assimilate and convert to Christianity
Indians would lose traditions

12. William Clark (1822)
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Superintendent of Indian Affairs
Gave away Kansa and Osage land to emigrant tribes from the East.
Continued what Thomas Jefferson started
President Andrew Jackson

13. Moved Indians in East to land west of Mississippi River
Andrew Jackson
5th Amendment
Moved Indians in East to land west of Mississippi River
Indians stood in way of American progress
Economy based on agriculture
Indians assigned to reservations
(1791)
Eminent domain

14. Convert Indian children to Christianity
Teach vocational skills
Goal– Americanize the Indian
Mission Schools