1. Indian Removal Act
Removed Indians from the East and moved them west of the Mississippi river

2. Reasons for Indian Removal
America’s desire for land
New immigrants
Birth rate rising
Economy – based on Agriculture
Fear of European Countries invading (Barrier)

3. 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

4. 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

5. Tribes in Kansas
Native Kansas Tribes
Emigrant Kansas Tribes

6. 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?