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A Little History

KAW TRIBE
1895 Maps of Indian Nations

The Kaw or Kansa are one of the five tribes in the Dhegiha group of the Siouan linguistic family.Accordingto tradition, the five tribes-Kaw, Osage, Ponca, Omaha and Quapaw were one people and lived along the Wabash River and far up the Ohio.Pushed westward by the encroachment of superior forces, they split at the mouth of the Ohio River.Those going down the Mississippi River took the name �Quapaw� or �Downstream People.�The latter afterward divided into four tribes-the Kaw, Osage, Ponca, and Omaha.By terms of the treaties with the United States from 1820 to 1846, the Kaw relinquished their claims to several million acres in Kansas and Nebraska. A new reservation was assigned them in 1846 at Council Grove on the Neosho River, Kansas.These lands were finally overrun by white settlers.In 1872, the tract was sold, and a new reserve was purchased for the tribe near the Osage, in Indian Territory.In 1902, that reservation was allotted under law to the tribal membership; and today there is no tribal member who still owns any of the trust land.