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Facts are statements which are held to be true and often contrasted with opinions and beliefs. Our unusual and interesting facts about Indians of Kansas, trivia and information, including some useful statistics will fascinate everyone from kids and children to adults.

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  • Fact 1 - Kansas is a state in midwestern United States. The indigenous people of this state included various tribes of Native Americans. Some adopted the Woodland cultures whilst others were Great Plains Indians

  • Fact 2 - Features of the area: Hilly plains in the east; central prairie and hills; high plains in the west.
  • Fact 3 - The peoples who lived on the plains and hills  are referred to as the Great Plains Indians and were nomadic hunter gatherers. These tribes also inhabited lands of Woodland, Lakes and streams and were hunters, fishers and farmers. Their crops included rice, squash, melons, pumpkins.
  • Fact 2 - The Indians of Kansas were the Arapaho, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chippewa, Comanche, Delaware, Kansa, Kiowa, Missouri, Osage, Otoe, Fox, Pawnee, Illinois and Iroquois
  • Fact 3 - Names of Border States: Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma
  • Fact 4 - Origin of the name of the state: From the Sioux Indian for "south wind people"
  • Fact 5 - Features of the area: Hilly plains in the east; central prairie and hills; high plains in the west.
  • Fact 6 - The Kansa tribe, also known as the Kansas or Kaw tribes, originally inhabited eastern and central Kansas. They were typical Plains Indians.
  • Fact 7 - Many of the Arapaho tribes of Colorado moved to the Great Plains. The Great Plains Indians lived in tepees. The name 'Arapaho' is believed to be a corruption of the Pawnee word for 'traders.' Since 1878 the Northern Arapaho Nation has lived with the Eastern Shoshone on the Wind River Reservation.
  • Fact 8 - The Cherokee were one of the "Five Civilized Tribes", because they had assimilated cultural and customs of the white settlers and colonists. The Cherokee refer to themselves as the "Principal
    People". The "Five Civilized Tribes" were the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole
  • Fact 9 - The Cheyenne tribe are one of the famous tribes of the Great Plains. The cholera epidemic reached the Plains Indians in 1849 resulting in huge loss of life
  • Fact 10 - The Chippewa people were members of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior. The people's name, is given as Ojibwe in Canada but as Chippewa in the United States. The Chippewa waged extremely violent war on their enemies - they were so feared that the French considered the complete annihilation of this tribe.
  • Fact 11 - The Comanche are believed to be one of the first tribes to fully incorporate the horse into their culture and to have introduced the horse to the other Plains peoples. They were well known as fierce warriors
  • Fact 12 - The Delaware Indians. The Lenape, also referred to as Lenapi or the Delaware Indians, are a group of several organized bands who lived along the Delaware River. The "three sisters," corn (maize), beans and squash were the staples of their diet, supplemented by fish and game
  • Fact 13 - Members of the Fox tribe (Mesquaki) spread through southern Wisconsin, and the Iowa / Illinois border after constant battles with the French-backed Huron tribe
  • Fact 14 - The Illinois tribe (Illini or Illiniwek) were hunters and fishers. The name "Iliniwek" is an old Ojibwe word borrowed into French as 'Illinois'. In the 17th century, the Illiniwek declined due to a combination of European diseases and a war with the local tribes. In 1769 the allied Iroquois, Kickapoo, Ojibwa, Ottawa, Potawatomi, and Sac and Fox tribes massacred the Illinois.
  • Fact 15 - The Iroquois are also known as the Haudenosaunee or the "People of the Longhouse". Tribes of Iroquoian-speaking people formed the Iroquois League referred to as the Five Nations or Iroquois Confederacy was composed of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca nations
  • Fact 16 - The Missouri tribe lived near the mouth of the Grand River in Missouri. They were, however a nomadic tribe, that inhabited parts of the Midwestern United States before the explorers from Europe arrived.
  • Fact 17 - The culture of the Osage Indians was marked by the combination of village agriculture and buffalo hunting. Their language is Sioux.
  • Fact 18 - The Oto, also spelt Otoe, had a Plains Indians type of culture. They were once part of the Sioux tribes of the Great Lakes area, commonly known as the Winnebago
  • Fact 19 - Members of the Fox tribe (Mesquaki) spread through southern Wisconsin, and the Iowa / Illinois border after constant battles with the French-backed Huron tribe
  • Fact 20 - The Pawnee tribe were a semi-nomadic tribe of hunter farmers and a dominant tribe of the Great Plains people
  • Fact 21 - The Wichita were a tribe of hunter fishers who lived in fixed villages notable for their large, domed-shaped, grass-covered dwellings. The Wichita were known to tattoo their faces and bodies with solid and dotted lines and circles - their name means "raccoon-eyed people". They moved from Texas to Kansas, where they established a village at the site of present-day Wichita, Kansas
  • Fact 22 - The Kansa tribe, also known as the Kansas or Kaw tribes, originally inhabited eastern and central Kansas. They were typical Plains Indians.

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