Invasions & Encounters

• What motivated the early explorers?

• European Explorers to Kansas

• Spread religion• Conquer new lands• Establish trade

routes• Obtain resources

(gold/spices)• Expand knowledge

• 1st Spanish• 2nd French• 3rd British

Spanish Explorer

• Francisco Vazquez de Coronado

• Serve in gov’t of New Spain

• Stories of 7 cities of gold

• Indian slave “Turk”

• Came to Kansas in search of Quivira

• Came into contact with Wichita

• Coronado returned to Mexico

• Expedition failure• Trial and found

guilty of mistreating native peoples

French Explorers

• Claude Charles Du Tisne`

• Sent to contact Comanche

• Failed to reach Comanche

• Contacted Osage and Pawnee

• Traded guns and ammo for information

• Etienne Veniard de Bourgmont

• Sent 4 years after Du Tisne

• Purpose to establish friendship with Kansa and Plains Apache

• Gain control over Kansas

• Set up Fort Orleans

• Overtime unable to give Indians what they wanted

• Indians became interested in British goods

• Tension between French and Indians

• Set up Fort Cavaginal to regulate fur trade.

• Monarchy

• Sovereign rights

• Indians were to give allegiance to king/queen

• Rights of native peoples ignored

• Spanish

• French

• Did not live amongst Indians

• Provided horses NOT guns

• Lived with Indians

• Married Indian women

• Provided guns and ammo

• Both • Brought new diseases killing entire villages

• New products such as metal (guns), tools, and cloth

• Increased tension among tribes

Indian Relocation

• Isaac McCoy (1828)

• Create Indian state where natives could live

• Gradually assimilate and convert to Christianity

• Indians would lose traditions

• William Clark (1822)

• Indian Removal Act of 1830

• Superintendent of Indian Affairs

• Gave away Kansa and Osage land to emigrant tribes from the East.

• Continued what Thomas Jefferson started

• President Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson

• 5th Amendment

• Moved Indians in East to land west of Mississippi River

• Indians stood in way of American progress

• Economy based on agriculture

• Indians assigned to reservations

• (1791)• Eminent domain

• Mission Schools • Convert Indian children to Christianity

• Teach vocational skills

• Goal– Americanize the Indian