The purchase by the United States of…
1825 CE
They are increasingly hemmed in, first, by Eastern tribes forced to migrate west and, secondly, by White settlers who covet the land occupied and claimed by the Kaw.
West of the Kaw live the warlike Cheyenne and Comanche, and to the north are the Pawnee, their traditional enemies.
In 1825, the Kaw cede a huge area of land in Missouri and Kansas to the United States in exchange for a promise of an annuity of thirty-five hundred dollars annually for twenty years
The promised annuity—to be paid in goods and services—will often be late in arriving or find its way into the pockets of unscrupulous government officials and merchants.
The Kaw are indifferent to the pleas of government agents and missionaries that they take up farming as their sole livelihood.
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