“Great Frauds and Grievous Wrongs”: Mapping the Loss of Kickapoo Allotment Lands
Alternate Title
Native American Symposium; 12th, 2017
Representations and Realities
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Author/Creator
Stephen L. Egbert
Paula I. Smith
Description
Discusses the United States government’s relocation of the Kickapoo people in Kansas to a 768,000 acre reservation as a result of the 1832 Treaty of Castor Hill and the subsequent reductions and loss of that land through a combination of corrupt government agents, pressure from railroad companies and settler interests.