2016 Spring Newsletter

“I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan’s cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, Logan is the friend of the white men. I have even thought to live with you but for the injuries of one man. Col. Cresap, the last spring, in cold blood, and unprovoked, murdered all the rela tions of Logan, not sparing even my women and chil ESFO ć FSF SVOT OPU B ESPQ PG NZ CMPPE JO UIF WFJOT PG BOZ MJWJOH DSFBUVSF ć JT IBT DBMMFE PO NF GPS SFWFOHF I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not arbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to save his life. Who is there to mourn for Logan? Not one. “ (https://nativeheritageproject.com/2014/01/26/lo gans-lament/)A Americans who inhabited the original thirteen states al XBZT IBE BO VSHF GPS XFTUXBSE FYQBOTJPO ć F TPVUIFSO states needed more fertile land for their agrarian economy. ć F NJE "UMBOUJD BOE OPSUIFSO TUBUFT OFFEFE BEEJUJPOBM MBOE GPS BO FYQMPEJOH QPQVMBUJPO ć F CVTJOFTT XPSME TBX many opportunities in the Ohio Valley and an ever increas JOH USBEF XJUI UIF PSJFOU ć VT UIFSF XBT B QFSDFJWFE OFFE GPS FYQBOTJPO BOE B USBOTDPOUJOFOUBM SBJMSPBE UP UIF 1BDJĕ D coast. In order to achieve these perceived needs, the United States acquired Florida from Spain and the Louisiana Territory GSPN 'SBODF 5FYBT XBT BOOFYFE "ę FS UIF 6OJUFE 4UBUFT acquired Texas, the next step was the war with Mexico to obtain the southwestern states. Remember 'Ję Z GPVS 'PSUZ or Fight. During the time the United States was expanding GSPN UIF "UMBOUJD UP UIF 1BDJĕ D DPOHSFTT XBT CFJOH QSFT sured to solve the Indian Problem. Encroachment on Indian lands began with the landing of the early settlers (what happened to the Roanoke colony?). As time passed, the Native Americans became so alarmed with the growing number of colonist taking their land, building towns and villages, the warriors of the Powhatan Confederacy in a surprise attack, committed what is known as the Indian Massacre of 1622. (Wallace p80 and Blum p54) As a result, the British Colonies eventually made treaties with Indian tribes east of the Appalachian Mountains which caused their removal to the Old Northwest Territory and 0IJP 7BMMFZ 5SFBUZ Bę FS USFBUZ NPWFE UIF USJCFT BOE CBOET further west toward the Mississippi River.

0O 'FCSVBSZ UIF TU $POHSFTT QSPČ FSFE 4FOBUF Bill S. 102. (http://www.nativehistoryassociation.org/removal.php) In 1823 Secretary of War John C Calhoun proposed an Indian removal policy that would move the Native Ameri cans from the south, the Ohio Valley and the Old Northwest Territory to lands west of Missouri and Arkansas. In 1825, Bę FS EFCBUF JO DPOHSFTT 1SFTJEFOU .POSPF BOOPVODFE UIF proposed removal policy. In 1825, the Shawnee voluntarily gave up their land in Missouri and moved to what would become Kansas Indian Territory. By 1828 the Osage, Wea, Piankashaw, Peoria, and Kaskaskia give up their lands in Missouri for land in Kansas. As early explorers moved down the Mississippi River they came to the mouth of the Missouri River. Jean-Bap tiste Louis Franquelin’s 1688 map shows the Missouris, the Osage and further up the Cansa living in the Missouri River valley. (Barry p7) By the early 1800s, tribes that would be moved to Miami County were already in eastern and south west Missouri.

ić F *OEJBO 3FNPWBM "DU XBT TJHOFE JOUP MBX CZ 1SFTJEFOU Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy." (https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Indian.html) ć F 3FNPWBM "DU PG FOBCMFE UIF HPWFSONFOU UP CF gin the resettlement of tribes from Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and Illinois to reservation land in what is now Miami Coun ty, Kansas. In 1832 the remaining members of the Wea,Pi ankashaw, Peoria, and Kaskaskia tribes began their migra tion from east of the Mississippi. August 5, 1838 was the deadline for moving the Pottawatomi bands from Indiana to their lands in Kansas. On August 6th UIF HPWFSONFOU T Pď DJBM DBMMFE B NFFUJOH BU $IJFG .FOPN

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