White pressure finally had forced the Kaw…
June 1873 CE
On June 4, 1873, they had packed up their meager possessions in wagons and head outh to Indian Territory to a new reservation.
Two weeks later, Five hundred and thirty-three Kaw men, women, and children arrive at the junction of the Arkansas River and Beaver Creek in what will become Kay County, Oklahoma.
The Kaw make their last successful buffalo hunt this winter, journeying on horseback to the Great Salt Plains.
They will preserve the buffalo meat by jerking it and sell the buffalo robes for five thousand dollars.
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