| Year |
History |
| 1500 |
Omaha group separated from the
Kaw and Quapaw in the region of the Wabash and Ohio Rivers |
| 1541 |
Probably met Coronado, called
"Guaes" |
| 1542 |
Father Juan de Padilla, a priest
who had accompanied Coronado, returned to Kansas. He hoped to bring
Christianity to the Indians. He was killed, however, by the Indians he
tried to help. Father Padilla is said to have been the first Christian
martyr in America |
| 1686 |
Arkansas Post established |
| 1693 |
Began trading with French
traders |
| 1724 |
M. Etienne Venyard, Sieur de
Bourgmont, made contact with Kaw in present Doniphan County |
| 1725 |
Fort Orleans is destroyed by
Kansa Indians |
| 1795 |
Fur-trading Chouteau family
begin trading with Kansa Indians |
| 1804 |
Met and gave assistance to Lewis
and Clark |
| 1815 |
Treaty with the Kansa, A treaty
of peace and friendship, made and concluded at St. Louis between Ninian
Edwards and Auguste Chouteau, Commissioners Plenipotentiary of the
United States of America, on the part and behalf of the said States, of
one part; and the undersigned Chiefs and Warriors of the Kanza Tribe of
Indians, on the part and behalf of their said tribe, of the other part |
| 1820 |
The Federal government began
moving the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Choctaw and
Chickasaw) of the Southeast to lands West of the Mississippi River,
Indian Territory included present day Oklahoma North and East of the Red
River; as well as Kansas and Nebraska |
| 1822 |
Allied with Osage to protect to
protect territories from tribes migrating from the east |
| 1830 |
Removal Act of 1830 uprooted the
Kickapoo, Shawnee, Delaware, Potawatomie, Wyandot, Ottawa,
Chippewa, Iowa, Miami, Sac, and Fox tribes |
| 1832 |
Kickapoo, Potawatomie, Kaskaskia,
Peoria, Wea and Piankeshaw Indian reservations are established in
Kansas |
| 1836 |
Sauk, Fox, and Iowa Indians are
moved to Kansas |
| 1840 |
Miami Indians are moved to
Kansas |
| 1843 |
Wyandot Indians settle on
reservation in eastern Kansas, establish city of Wyandot (Kansas City,
Kansas) |
| 1846 |
Kansa Indians cede 2 millions
acres of land and relocate southeast of Council Grove |
| 1873 |
Reservation sold, purchased land
in Oklahoma |
| 1892 |
Kaw Charles Curtis elected to
Congress on Republican ticket |
| 1907 |
Charles Curtis elected to United
States Senate |
| 1924 |
Charles Curtis became Republican
leader in Senate |
| 1828 |
Charles Curtis, (Topeka) Kansas
U.S. Senator was elected Vice-President under Herbert Hoover |
| 1832 |
At the Olympics in Los Angeles,
Vice-President Charles Curtis gave the opening address |
| 1836 |
Kaw Glen Cunningham set world
record in one mile run, Charles Curtis died |
