Indigenous Peoples of Kansas

The word Kansas comes from a Sioux word meaning "people of the south wind"

Tribes and Bands of Kansas
The following list of tribes is compiled from:


 * Hodge, Frederick Webb. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Ethnology, Bulletin #30 1907.
 * Swanton, John R. The Indian Tribes of North America. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnology, Bulletin #145

Tribes
Apache, Arapaho, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chippewa, Comanche, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Iroquois, Jicarilla, Kansa, Kaskaskia (New York Indians), Kaw, Kickapoo, Kiowa, Kiowa-Apache, Miami, Missouri, Munsee, Osage, Oto, Ottawa, Pawnee, Peoria, Piankashaw, Potawatomi, Prairie Band of Potawatomi, Quapaw, Sac and Fox - Musquacki (of Mississippi and Missouri), Seneca, Shawnee, Southern Cheyenne, Wea, Wyandotte

Bands
Black Bob's Band of Shawnee

Prairie Band Potawatomi

Sac and Fox of Kansas

Reservations
As identified in the National Atlas of the United States of America, the following reservation names in bold are current federally-recognized reservations:

Chippewa - Munsee Reservation

Iowa Reservation (Federal, under jurisdiction of Horton Agency, Tribe: Iowa)

Kickapoo Reservation (State, under jurisdiction of Horton Agency, Tribe: Kickapoo)

Ottawa Reservation

Prairie Potawatomi Reservation (Federal, under jurisdiction of Horton Agency, Tribe: Potawatomi)

Peoria Reservation

Potawatomi Reservation

Sac and Fox Reservation

Shawnee Reservation (1854)

Wyandot Reservation

Agencies
Delaware Agency

Drum Creek Agency

Great Nehamha Agency

Jicarilla Agency

Horton Agency, P.O. Box 31,Horton, KS 66439

Pawnee Agency

Potawatomi Agency

Quapaw and Seneca Agency

Southern Pueblo Agency

Available Records at the Family History Library
John Gill Pratt Papers 1834-1899 13 films 1st film 0812758

Central Superintendency of Indian Affairs 1813-1878 108 films M 856 1st film: 1602893

Haskell Institute 7 films 1st film 1205530

See Also:
Kansas Church for a list of missions

Kansas History for a calendar of events

Kansas Military for a list of forts