The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-03-15
KAW BAND
REMNANT
To DISBAND
Once Powerful Nation Of Kan.
SaS IntianS VIII Soon Pass
Into History
az Leased WIrel


Kansas City, Kan, Mar. 1.-THE
kaw tribe oi Indians, which a ean-
lJiry ago occupied part of the Stale ot
Kansas is to be disbauded The
lew full bl0ods who still remain p
the portion OF Oklahoma and South
an Kansas which once was their res
leivation will manage their own affairs
hereafter Al r, Miller who mas
charge or the affairs Of the tribe,
says chat its accounts must be
wound up this year
When Marquette told Of the terri
tory now Kansas he spoke Of il be-
ing occupied by four great tribes OF
lEdians, the Osages, Pawnees, KAN
sas, and tribe known by several
names that long ago passed away.
The Kansas Kanz, we're also known
as Che Kaw. They dwell along the
banks Of the river that now bears
thcir name and, like IT, were known
as both Kansas and Kaw.
They LETT nothing to mark their
dwelling places excopt the embers Of
camp fires. Not mound OF mark On
the landscape, except some figures
ON cliff near Wolcoi that some say
were made bN Indians, others by me
tf the early Spanish expeditions, and
still Others by mischieVous boys
can Do pointed to by the most ima-
sinative as III any way reminding
The pale face Of today Of the Kan
sas Indians.
Retrcat Before Civilization
When the government began TO
move tho great tribes OF he east 10
new lands In the west the Kantz fell
back before the advance Of the more
civilized Indian nations as these In
tlrn receded before the white man,
The land about the mouth Of the l<aw
river went 10 the Delawares; then
10 the Wyandottes and the more say
age Shawnees. The Wyandottes and
Deawafes built houses ~and welcom-
ed the missionaries The Shawnee
mission still stands near this city as
mark oi their civilization, and in
the old part Of the city may still be
seen houses built by early indian
settlers,
Near Bonaar Springs stands a log
sabin once tee home OF Delaware
chief, and in the heart Of this city,
where trolley cars roll past the dead
ehieftains of the Wyaudot es sleep
in Huron cemetery, protected by the
treaty they wisely made with the
pale faces proyiaing, when the iand
was given over, that $50 long as tile
grass shall grow aud the water
nn" The Huron cemetery shall re-
main to the Wpandottes and their de-
seendants burying ground The
ity has grown about it aud tall build
ngs cast their shadows across IL, but
no later lawmakers have been able
Q find a way to twis and perycrt the
meaning Of the poetic phraseology
'0f the quaint treaty made by the
tribal council In the sos
Tribe Leaves No Mark
The Kansas tribe left no such
marks behind it, except for few
lines in the FIRST pages Of he his
tories Of the state, little is said ot
H. It's chieftains are not named, and
only a mention that II moved west
ward before the Other tribes and then
westward again and later southward
and 70 on from place TO place, tells
OF its history. except to those VINO
dig down deep in old files of govern.
ment records or seek among the early
settlers to find who was known ~
the tribal his ory.
The tribe dwiudled from once 9
powerful nation to only a handful oi
nj bloods. and now its lands are
to be divided among its members
IT'S tribal council is dissolved, Its
history marked ended Then lhe
records at Washington viii show thai
another nation Of the red men, once
50 powerful enough for state "a
hear it's name, has passed away.