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This summons and petition relate to the case of the United States versus Jesse Donahue (Donahoo) for settling on Miami Tribal Land in Linn County, Kansas Territory on January 1 of an unknown year, likely 1860. A petition filed by Kansas Attorney General Alson C. Davis states Donahue is being sued for one thousand dollars. In the mid-19th century, the Miami Nation was relocated to a reservation in Lykins (present-day Miami) and Linn Counties in Kansas and later to Oklahoma.
Date: 1860
Item Number: 444970
Call Number: Kansas Territory Criminal Case Files, Box 8, Folder 34
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 444970
Collections - State Archives - U. S. District Court of Kansas (Kansas Territory) - Criminal Case Files
Date - 1854-1860 - 1860
Government and Politics - Crime and Punishment - Crime - Trespass
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Courts - United States District Courts
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Courts - Third Judicial District
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Case file
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Record, Judicial
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Summons
People - American Indians - Indian lands
People - American Indians - Tribes - Miami
Places - Counties - Linn
Places - Indian reservations - Miami
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Government records - Case files
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Legal documents
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