Kaw Nation
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United States 
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Ancestral homeland: In the Ohio Valley
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Tribal Headquarters[edit | edit source]
Kaw Nation
P.O. Box 50
Kaw City, OK 74641
Phone: 1.580.269.2552
Fax: 1.580.269.2301
- The Kaw Nation Official Website
Population: 1984: 1,064 enrollment.
History[edit | edit source]
Brief Timeline[edit | edit source]
1804-06: Lewis and Clark Expedition made contact with the tribe
1820-1846: Lost most of their land in what is now Kansas and Nebraska
1846: Assigned a reservation at Council Grove on the Neosho River in Kansas
1850: Methodist Church established and built a mission.
1859: About half of the reservation of Council Grove was ceded to the United States
1873: New reservation in Indian Territory (Kay County, Oklahoma)
1902: Lands were allotted
Additional References to the History of the Tribe[edit | edit source]
Reservations[edit | edit source]
Agencies[edit | edit source]
Records[edit | edit source]
The majority of records of individuals were those created by the agencies. Some records may be available to tribal members through the tribal headquarters.They were (and are) the local office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and were charged with maintaining records of the activities of those under their responsibility. Among these records are:
- Allotment records
- Annuity rolls
- Census records
- Correspondence
- Health records
- Reports
- School census and records
- Vital records
Correspondence and Census[edit | edit source]
| Tribe | Agency |
Location of Original Records |
Pre-1880 Correspondence M 234 RG 75 Rolls Roll Number |
FHL Film Number |
Post-1885 Census M595 RG 75 Rolls Roll Number |
FHL Film Number |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kaw | Pawnee Agency, 1871-1964 | Fort Worth | 659-68 | 199, 317-28, 337-43 | 579746-753 | |
| Kaw, Kansas | Ft. Leavenworth, Agency, 1824-47 | Washington D.C. | 330-03 | - | ||
| Kaw, Kansas | Osage River Agency, 1847-51 | Washington D.C. | 642-51 | - | ||
| Kaw,Kansas | Potawatomi Agency, 1851-55 | Washington D.C. | 678-95 | - | ||
| Kaw, Kansas | Kansas Agency, 1855-76 | Washington D.C. | 364-70 | - | ||
| Kaw, Indian Territory | Osage Agency, 1874-80 | Washington D. C. & Fort Worth | 633-41 | - |
Land Records[edit | edit source]
Tribally owned: 183.50 acres. [1]
Vital Records[edit | edit source]
- Pawnee Agency, M595, births and deaths 1924-1932, FHL Film: 579750
Important Websites[edit | edit source]
- Constitution of the Kaw Nation, adopted July 31, 1990, amended April 29, 2016.
- The Kaw Nation Official Website
- Kaw Tribe Wikipedia
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Indian Reservations A State and Federal Handbook. Compiled by The Confederation of American Indians, New York, N.Y. McFarland and Co. Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina, c. 1986. FHL book 970.1 In2 page 225
