Abstract of articles purchased during the 4th quarter, 1878
Creator: Potawatomi Indian Agency
Date: October 01, 1878-December 14, 1878
This item details the goods and services purchased for the Kansas Agency in the final quarter of 1878. This abstract lists who purchased the item, what item was purchased, as well as the price of the item. Items purchased include buttons, coffee, nails, rice, scissors, and many other items needed for the Kickapoo tribe that lived on the Kansas Agency. During this period, the Kansas Agency was officially known as the Potawatomi Agency but was often referred to as the Kansas Agency because it was the only one in Kansas at the time.

Abstract of articles purchased during the third quarter of 1879
Creator: Linn, H.C.
Date: July 01, 1879-September 01, 1879
This item contains a list of items purchased by U.S. Indian Agent H.C. Linn for the Kansas (Potawatomi) Agency in the third quarter of 1879. Items include beef, bastard files, bacon, lye, nails, and other things. The abstract indicates that the purchases were for the Kickapoo tribe living at the Kansas Agency.

Chief Wiskigeamatyuk
Creator: Nusbaum, Jesse L. (Jesse Logan)
Date: 1921
This is a photograph of Chief Wiskigeamatyuk who was a chief and holy man in the Potawatomi tribe. Geronimo, who had heard rumors of Chief Wiskigeamatyuk's magic powers, was intrigued and wanted to meet the chief and holy man. The photograph was taken by Jesse Nusbaum, anthropologist, who visited Chief Wiskigeamatyuk with William Hale, a Potawatomi interpreter. According to the information written on the back of the photograph, Chief Wiskigeamatyuk was a prisoner of war for disruption towards the government. He and his brother Wah Quah Bosh Kuk were arrested for refusing to send children from their tribe to an Indian school where they would be Americanized.

Council meeting at Kickapoo Agency
Creator: Baldwin, Royal
Date: 1857
This is a transcribed copy of a conversation between Keotuck and his fellow Potawatomi leaders and their Indian agent, Royal Baldwin. The Potawatomi and Kickapoo had been living on the same lands, and since they had just planted their crops, the Potawatomi were expressing their desire to remain settled on this land. Apparently the United States government had not given the Potawatomi their full annuity payment and had asked them to move, but Keotuck's band protested because they had paid $8,009 to remain with the Kickapoo. The back of the document includes a transcription of the compact joining the Kickapoo and Potawatomi, written in 1851. This item demonstrates that many Native Americans lived in the middle of a very precarious situation due to the nature of the treaties they signed with the U.S. Government.

Dance hall and ring, Pottawatomie Indian reservation
Date: Between 1890 and 1920
This is a photograph of the dance hall and ring, Pottawatomie Indian Reservation, Jackson County, Kansas.

Ezra A. Hayt to H.C. Linn
Creator: Hayt, Ezra A.
Date: December 10, 1878
In this item, U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs explains to U.S. Indian Agent H.C. Linn that the U.S. Secretary of the Interior has approved the purchase of school and shop supplies on the "open market."

Gary Wiskigeamatyuk
Date: 1967
This is a photograph of Gary Wiskigeamatyuk (Nanaquiba), son of James Wahbnosah and Rhodie Shen-Shesh (Kaukemaquah), who was a member of the Potawatomi tribe and lived on the reservation in Jackson County, Kansas.

Gary Wiskigeamatyuk
Date: 1963
This is a photograph of Gary Wiskigeamatyuk (Nanaquiba), son of James Wahbnosah and Rhodie Shen-Shesh (Kaukemaquah) riding a horse near Mayetta, Kansas. He was a member of the Potawatomi tribe and lived on the reservation in Jackson County, Kansas.

G.T. Bolman receipt
Creator: Bolman, G.T.
Date: November 1, 1878
This receipt lists items purchased from G.T. Bolman's store in Netawaka, Kansas, by U.S. Indian Agent H.C. Linn for the Potawatomi Agency in Kansas.

H.E. Bruce to Charles Cecil Howes
Creator: Bruce, H.E.
Date: May 18, 1939
These are several items from H.E. Bruce that were sent to Charles Cecil Howes. The first item is a letter from Bruce to Howes that concerns the meeting Bruce was having with the Potawatomies on May 21, 1939. Bruce, U.S. Indian Agent for the Potawatomie, attached a copy of the 43-page speech that he was going to give, as well as a sample ballot that was going to be used "in voting on certain questions." In the end, Bruce explained to Howes that "agitators have stirred up a very unwholesome situation, which I think this meeting will largely overcome."

James Wahb-no-sah
Creator: Landes, Ruth, 1908-
Date: 1951
A photograph taken by Ruth Landes of James Wahbnosah (Pam-Weh-Tuk) son of Potawatomi Holy man and last known Thunder Clan Chief, Chief Wiskigeamatyuk and Rosan Lasley (Keokomoquah) holding what was known to Potawatomi elders as the pipe of Topinebee, one of the original Three Fires Confederacy pipes marked with the ancient burns resembling that of a hearth fire board. The pipe was protected by Mr. Wahbnosah's father who was a grandson of Chief Senachwine. For decades, the pipes seen in this picture remained within the Nation of the Prairie Band Potawatomis of Kansas. Placed before him is the Fire Keeper pipe of the Ottawa tribe, originally in guardianship of Shobbona, grandnephew of Chief Pontiac, who later in life became a Potawatomi Chief. This pipe was recovered and absorbed by the Potawatomis from Shobbona due to conflict and tribal politics which caused it to remain in Kansas within the Prairie Band Potawatomis. Also placed before him is a Greenville Treaty pipe used by the Potawatomis in the 1795 signing of the Treaty of Greenville at Fort Greenville in Ohio. It is noted by Ruth Landes from information gathered by James Wahbnosah that one of the three Fire Confederacy pipes in guardianship by tribal member and elder Joe Stoddard of the Ojibwe tribe was stolen in 1948 from the Bad River community in Northern Wisconsin and was never recovered. The photograph was taken near Mayetta, Kansas.

Kansas and Nebraska map
Creator: Bowen & Co. Lith, Philad
Date: 1865
Kansas and Nebraska map of 1865 from the 39th Congress 1st session: Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office.

Kansas : early routes, old trails, historic sites, landmarks, etc.
Creator: Root, George A. (George Allen), 1867-1949
Date: 1939 December
This map, created by George Allen Root and later reproduced by the Kansas Turnpike Authority, depicts trails, landmarks, and historic sites in the state of Kansas. The original map was compiled by George Allen Root and delineated by W. M. Hutchinson from information obtained from the Kansas State Historical Society.

Ke Kahn [Joseph Napolean Bourassa] to Ne Kahn [Thomas Nesbit Stinson]
Creator: Bourassa, Joseph Napolean, 1810-1878
Date: September 6, 1856
Joseph N. Bourassa, a Pottawatomie Indian who signed this letter with his Indian name of Ke Kahn, wrote to Thomas N. Stinson, a Tecumseh resident and Indian trader who had been adopted by the Shawnee tribe and given the Indian name of Ne Kahn. Bourassa, an interpreter for the Pottawatomie Agency, described difficulties in finding laborers to cut the hay that he had promised to provide to Stinson.

L. F. Pearson to Henry J. Aten about Chief Wiskigeamatyuk
Date: January 19, 1896
A letter written by L. F. Pearson, United States Indian Agent to Colonel Henry J. Aten, allotting agent. Pearson describes the activities of Chief Wiskigeamatyuk, a Prairie band Pottawatomie chief and medicine man who condemned missionaries and influenced his followers against the principles of civilization. Pearson proposed withholding all allotments to Chief Wiskigeamatyuk and his followers.

MacLean & Lawrences Sectional Map of Kansas Territory
Date: 1857
Sectional map of Kansas Territory drafted by C. P. Wiggin and signed by L. A. MacLean, Chief Clerk of the Surveyor General's office in Lecompton, Kansas Territory. The map was published by MacLean & Lawrence and printed by William Schuchman & Bro. in Philadelphia. This map is provided through a co-operative project between the Lecompton Historical Society and the Kansas Historical Society. Partial funding was provided by the Ross and Margaret Wulfkuhle Charitable Trust and the Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area. Copies of this map are available for viewing at both the Kansas Historical Society and Lecompton Historical Society.

Map of Eastern Kansas
Creator: Jewett, J.P. & Company
Date: 1856
A map of Eastern Kansas by E.B. Whitman and A.D. Searl, General Land Agents, Lawrence, Kansas. The map illustrates a portion of Eastern Kansas which depicts trading posts, post offices, missions, government forts, Indian villages, roads, trails and Indian boundaries. The Indian boundaries that are featured included: the Kickappo, Pottawatomie, Kansa, Sax and Fox, Shawnee, Miami, Ottawa, Chippewa, Peoria, Kaskaskia, Iowa, Delaware, Wyandotte, Piankashaw, and the Wea. The map includes illustrations of the Eldridge House in Lawrence and the Constitution Hall in Topeka. The land discussed above was originally given to Native Americans following the passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1830.

Map of Kansas, with parts of neighboring states and territories
Creator: Hunnius, Ado, 1842-1923
Date: 1870
This map was drawn by Ado Hunnius at the request of Major General J. M. Schofield. It was compiled under the direction of 1st Lieutenant Henry Jackson of the 7th U.S. Cavalry in March 1870. It includes the location of forts in Kansas, southern Nebraska, eastern Colorado, and northern portions of Indian Territory (Oklahoma), as well as noting natural features (rivers, hills, etc.), trails, and Indian reservations.

Nebraska and Kanzas
Creator: J. H. Colton & Co.,
Date: 1855
The map, published in 1855, showed the eastern portions of both Kansas and Nebraska. The Nebraska portion depicts the counties that had been established at that time. The Kansas portion included cities, various Indian reservations, and rivers.

Old powwow grounds, Mayetta, Kansas
Date: 1913-1914
This is a view of the powwow grounds, Pottowattomie Indian reservation, Mayetta, Kansas, 1913-1914. Front row: Nancy, Hale, Hale, Comodore, John Wabnum, and Mrs. Mzhuckteno. Back row: Ne Kon Ga Mos, Wis Ke Ge Te, and TTA Koga. Most of the people in the photograph are wearing Native American attire.

Plat book of Jackson County, Kansas
Creator: North West Publishing Co.
Date: 1903
This atlas shows maps of each township with the names of landowners. It has a patrons' directory, and plats of towns as of the year of publication. Several pages include a plat of the diminished Potawatomie Indian reservation

Potawatomi allottees and Connelley, Snyder, and Bennett correspondence
Creator: Connelley, William Elsey, 1855-1930
Date: November 23, 1917-December 03, 1917
The largest item in this group is a list of Potawatomi allottees complied by Colonel Henry J. Aten around 1905. The accompanying correspondence, that discusses the list of allottees, consists of letters between William Elsey Connelley of the Kansas State Historical Society, A. R. Snyder, Superintendent and Special Distribution Agent for the United States Indian Service, and W.W. Bennett, Superintendent of the U.S. Indian Service. Also included is a two-page, hand-written document titled "Location of Agency Buildings."

Potawatomi Indian mission church and home
Date: Between 1935 and 1940
This is a photograph containing three images of the Pottawatomie Indian mission home and church, Ineen Esther Group and W. H. M. Society group.

Potawatomi Prairie Band tribal members
Date: 1950
This is a photograph showing Potawatomi Prairie Band tribal members (left to right) George Allen, Bernard Keesis, Gary Wiskigeamatyuk, Curtis Pequano and James KeGmeGa. The photograph was probably taken on the Potawatomi reservation in Jackson County, Kansas.

Pottawatomie Indian Mission church
Date: 1905 ?
View of an unidentified Pottawatomie Indian mission church.