Kaw
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- Kaw is also a town in French Guiana and a nickname for the Kansas River.
It is from the name of this tribe that the toponym "Kansas" is derived. The Kaw are closely related to the Osage Nation and at times have been thought of as a kind of Osage.
1820s to 1840s and the Indian nations
The region claimed by the Kanzas Nation was ceded to the United States by the treaty of June 1825. The Missouri Shawanoes (or Shawnees) were the first Indians removed to the territory set apart for emigrant tribes by the treaties of June, 1825. The Kanzas and Osages were relocated later.
The Curtis Act in 1898 expanded the powers of the federal government over American Indian affairs. An act of congress in 1902 disbanded the Kaw tribe as a legal entity. This act transferred 160 acres (0.6 km²) to the federal government and about 1,625 acres (6.6 km²) of Kaw land to Curtis and his children.
The federal land was used to found the city of Washungah, Oklahoma. The Kaw Nation of Oklahoma regained recognition and is currently located in Kaw City, Oklahoma.
The only Native American to reach the Vice Presidency of the United States was Charles Curtis, under Herbert Hoover (1929–1933). His mother was a Kaw.
The U.S. jazz saxophonist, singer, and composer Jim Pepper (1941-1992) was of both Kaw and Creek ancestry.
On April 23, 2000 the last Kaw fullblood, William A. Mehojah died: and, the Allegawaho Memorial Heritage Park (AMHP) was dedicated on June 19, 2005 near Council Grove, Kansas.
See also
- Kansas River (Northeast Kansas)
- Kaw Lake (Northern Oklahoma)
- National Museum of the American Indian (Cultural Resource Center)
- *Dawes Act (1887)
- *Dawes Rolls
- Oklahoma Territory land runs
- *Cherokee Nation
- *Lenape Nations
- *Shawnees today
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