| When the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock it is
estimated that there were 200 Indian tribes in what is now
the United States. For 250 years they were gradually
pushed west by the advancing frontier. In 1825 the
government determined to solve the Indian problem
forever by removing all Eastern tribes to "waste lands"
west of the Missouri. Treaties were made and 28 tribes
were assigned to eastern Kansas. This marker is on the
old Delaware reserve. A little east was the Wyandot
country. South were Shawnees, Pottawatomies, Ottawas,
Miamis, and Chippewas. North were the Kickapoos. "So
long as the sun shines and water runs down hill," they
were assured, this would be Indian Country. Twenty-five
years later, however, land-hungry settlers forced new
treaties whereby the tribes were sold out and removed
to present Oklahoma. There are now only four small
reserves in Kansas.
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