Indian Removal Act Removed Indians from the East and moved them west of the Mississippi river.

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Indian Removal Act Removed Indians from the East and moved them west of the Mississippi river

Transcript of Indian Removal Act Removed Indians from the East and moved them west of the Mississippi river.

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Indian Removal Act

Removed Indians from the East and moved them west of the Mississippi

river

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Reasons for Indian Removal

• America’s desire for land• New immigrants• Birth rate rising• Economy – based on Agriculture• Fear of European Countries invading (Barrier)

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What did Native Americans do?

• Trail of Tears

-Protect what was left of their land -assimilate

-Sold parts of their land to the United States Government -control over what land was left

-Refused to move, even if it meant going to war

Eventually sent to reservations in Kansas

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Tribes in Kansas

Native Kansas Tribes• Cheyenne,Arapaho,Apache,

Comanche,Kiowa,Pawnee, Kansa, Wichita and Osage

Emigrant Kansas Tribes• Ote,Missouri,Iowa,Sauk and

Fox,Kickapoo,Delaware, Wyandot,Shawnee,

Chippewa,Ottawa,Peoria, Kaskaskia,Wea,Piankashaw, Pottawatomie,Miami,New York

Indians,Cherokee,Quapaw

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Tribes in Kansas

Native Kansas Tribes Emigrant Kansas Tribes

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Emigrant Indian Experience

• When tribes arrived many found the conditions to be unfamiliar and difficult

• Potawatomi had lived on a diet of mainly fish in their native lands

• Miami had been traders• Shawnee and Ottawa were hunters -300 of the 600 Ottawa died the first year

How did the Native tribes of Kansas feel about these other tribes coming into their old lands?