KANSAS, a tribe of Indians of the Dakota]; family, and a branch of the Osages. On 3farquctte's map of 1673 they are placed on the Missouri river, beyond the Missouris and the Usages. The Jesuits had a mission among them in 1728. In 1815 they were on the Kansas river at the mouth of the Saline, near the center of the state which has adopted their name, the Sioux having driven them from their home on the right bank of the Missouri. They numbered but 1500 at this time, and the government made a treaty of peace with them. By another treaty, made June 8, 1825, they ceded all their lands in Missouri and elsewhere, retaining a reservation 30 en. wide on the Kansas river. Thirty-six sections of land were to be sold, and the money thus obtained was to be invested as a school fund for their benefit: and the government agreed to give them an annuity of $3,500 for 20 years. and provide them with animals and implements of agri culture. Ten years later the Methodists established a mission among them, but failed of success. They could not be induced to cultivate the soil, and were constantly falling into trouble with the neighboring tribes. In 1846 the government entered into another treaty with them, by which a reservation 20 in. square on the head waters of the Neosho
was assigned to them. After removing to their new home they fell into bad habits and began to plunder the trains on the Santa F6 road. When Kansas began to be settled their reservation was invaded by the "squatters," who forced many of them to leave. In 1854 they entered into treaties granting a right of way through their territory to certain railroads. took no part in the Kansas troubles, but furnished 80 or 90 soldiers, who fought well for the United States in the war against the rebellion. In 1862 the Friends established a mission among them, but met with little success. In 1867 and 1869 new treaties were made with them, and finally, in 1872, congress directed their reservation on the Neosho and their trust lands to be sold, half the proceeds to be invested for their benefit, and half to be spent in providing new homes for them in the Indian territory. They also receive 5 per cent annually on $900,000 under the treaty of 1846, and the interest on $27,485 in stocks held for them by the government. In 1879 their number had dwindled to 593.