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This detailed map of the Kickapoo lands in Kansas shows the location of military roads, railroads, settlements, Indian missions, rivers, wooded areas, and cultivated fields. Kickapoo lands straddled Brown, Jackson, and Atchison counties in Northeast Kansas. The map was compiled by Major C.B. Keith for the Central Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad.
Creator: Union Pacific Railroad, Central Branch
Date: 1857
This detailed map will be visually appealing to students. This map, alongside other sources on the Kickapoo, could be grouped with maps showing all the Indian lands in Kansas to demonstrate a microhistory of emigrant tribes.
KS:7th:1.4:Indian Removal (2005)
Item Number: 209845
Call Number: 1857 P4 F3
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 209845
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Union Pacific
Collections - Map
Curriculum - 7th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - Prehistory to 1854 (Benchmark 1) - Indian Removal Act (Indicator 4) - Kickapoo
Curriculum - 7th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - Prehistory to 1854 (Benchmark 1) - Indian Removal Act (Indicator 4) - Loss of land and resources
Date - 1854-1860 - 1857
Environment - Landscape
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Federal agencies and programs - Policies and programs - Land - Indian Removal Act
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Map
People - American Indians - Indian removal
People - American Indians - Tribes - Kickapoo
Places - Counties - Atchison
Places - Counties - Brown
Places - Counties - Jackson
Places - Indian reservations - Kickapoo
Places - Regions - Northeast Kansas
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Union Pacific
Type of Material - Maps
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/209845