The End of Indian Kansas by H. Craig Miner

The violence in Washington pales before the many murders, approximately two hundred, occurring simultaneously in Kansas. The caning of Sumner, like the congressional gag rule on antislavery petitions, convinced many northerners of the inability of white southerners to respect republican principles, especially the right to criticize slavery. Brooks, Butler’s cousin, felt that he had to defend his relative’s honor and nearly killed Sumner as a result. In an explosive speech on the “Crime against Kansas,” Sumner had accused Senator Andrew Butler of South Carolina of taking “the harlot, slavery” as his mistress. Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina beat Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts in May 1856 with a cane right on the floor of the Senate chamber. Politics became increasingly militarized. Partisans established rival territorial governments by late 1855, an antislavery one in Topeka and a proslavery one in Lecompton. Kansas held elections in 18 in which hundreds of proslavery Missourians crossed the border to vote fraudulently. Organizations like the New England Emigrant Aid Society provided guns and other goods for settlers willing to go to Kansas and establish the territory as antislavery under the doctrine of popular sovereignty.

Records Pertaining to Recreation, Land Use, and State Cooperation () File on history and development of Fort Osage State Park and the Osage nation.“ Bleeding Kansas” brought violence to the white settlements of the Territory and to the floor of Congress.

An Indian Tribes of North America map comes from the State Historical Society of Missouri.

A map of Missouri notes Native American villages.

Unrau (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1990).

The End of Indian Kansas by Craig Miner and WIlliam E.

Wedel (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, fourth printing, 1974).

Prehistoric Man on the Great Plains by Waldo R.

Wedel (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1959).

An Introduction to Kansas Archeology by Waldo R.

Chapman (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1983).

Indians and Archaeology of Missouri by Carl H.

My thanks to Sam Rushay, Supervisory Archivist, Truman Presidential Library Laurie Austin, audiovisual archivist, Truman Presidential Library Jake Ersland, Director of Archival Operations, National Archives at Kansas City Tim Rives, Deputy Director of Archival Operations, National Archives at Kansas City and Kimberlee Ried, Public Affairs Specialist, Museum Programs Division, the National Archives at Kansas City, who researched the information for this land acknowledgment.Įnter your address in this interactive map of Traditional Native Lands to see who once lived where you are now. George Catlin’s 1896 Map of Indian Country, from the State Historical Society of Missouri.

The End of Indian Kansas by H. Craig Miner