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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kickapoos, (search)
re not absolutely subdued until the treaty at Greenville in 1795, after Wayne's decisive victory, when they ceded a part of their land for a small annuity. In the early part of the nineteenth century the Kickapoos made other cessions of territory; and in 1811 they joined Tecumseh and fought the Americans at Tippecanoe. In the War of 1812 they were the friends of the English; and afterwards a larger portion of them crossed the Mississippi and seated themselves upon a tract of land on the Osage River. Some cultivated the soil, while others went southward as far as Texas, in roving bands, plundering on all sides. For some time Texas suffered by these inroads; but in 1854 some of them, peaceably inclined, settled in Kansas, when, becoming dissatisfied, many of them went off to Mexico, where they opposed the depredations of the Apaches. In 1899 there were 237 Kickapoos at the Pottawattomie and Great Nehama agency in Kansas, and 246 Mexican Kickapoos at the Sac and Fox agency in Oklaho
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Osage Indians. (search)
Osage Indians. In 1825 a treaty was made at St. Louis by Gen. William Clark with the Great and Little Osage Indians for all their lands in Arkansas and elsewhere. These lands were ceded to the United States in consideration of an annual payment of $7,000 for twenty years, and an immediate contribution of 600 head of cattle, 600 hogs, 1,000 fowls, 10 yoke of oxen, 6 carts, with farming uten- Chief Osceola. sils, and other provisions similar to those in the treaty with the Kansas Indians. It was also agreed to provide a fund for the support of schools for the benefit of the Osage children. Provision was made for a missionary establishment; also for the United States to assume the payment of certain debts due from Osage chiefs to those of other tribes, and to deliver to the Osage villages, as soon as possible, $4,000 in merchandise and $2,600 in horses and their equipments. In 1899 the Osage Indians numbered 1,761, and were located in Oklahoma.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
Territory.] Spaniards from Santa Fe, seeking to found a colony on the Missouri, are destroyed by the Missouri Indians near the present site of Fort Leavenworth, only one settler, a Spanish priest, escaping and returning to Santa Fe......1720 M. de Bourgmont, commandant at Fort Orleans, Mo., undertakes a commercial expedition to the Paduca (Comanche) Indians in June, 1724, but, falling sick on the way, returns to the fort, on an island in the Missouri River, just above the mouth of the Osage. He resumed the journey in October, taking with him an escort of twelve Frenchmen, his son, a lad of ten, and twenty-seven Indians from the neighboring tribes. The expedition entered Kansas at the Kaw Indian village, then situated near the present site of Atchison, moved in a southwesterly direction across Kansas for about 230 miles to the nearest village of the Paducas, made a satisfactory treaty, and returned to Fort Orleans......Oct. 5, 1724 Included in the Louisiana Territory purcha
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Missouri, (search)
Louis, June 12, completes its labors, July 19, and the constitution is ratified by the people at the ensuing election......1820 Article III:, section 26, of the State constitution requires the legislature to pass such laws as may be necessary to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in the State......1820 General Assembly, elected Aug. 28, meets in the Missouri Hotel at St. Louis and organizes a State government......Sept. 19, 1820 Daniel Boone dies at Femme Osage......Sept. 26, 1820 Missouri admitted into the Union with conditions that the legislature should pledge the faith of the State that the free negro clause should never be executed......March 2, 1821 Conditions of admission of Missouri into the Union being accepted, President Monroe approves the bill......Aug. 10, 1821 Thomas H. Benton enters the United States Senate and serves continuously until 1851......1821 St. Louis incorporated a city; population, 4,800......Dec. 9, 1822