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The Kanza Exiled |
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The postponement of Kaw removal for nearly a decade was
not so much the result of a commitment to improve the tribe's condition as it
was the federal government's desire to resolve the old conflict between
squatters and speculators and dispose of both the trust lands and the diminished
reservation in a manner satisfactory to all concerned, excluding, to be sure,
the Kaws.
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Despite
the hardships they had suffered here, the Kaw did not
want to leave the Neosho River Valley. However, on June
4, 1873, their last forced migration began and was
completed without incident 17 days later. The 600 remaining
Kaws were removed to a reservation in Oklahoma, then called
"Indian Territory." In a gesture of
understanding, the government allowed them to go on a
buffalo hunt that fall. Ironically, it was
successful, even though it was their last.
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