The Kansa Indians
A History of the Wind People, 1673–1873

William E. Unrau (Author), H. Craig Miner (Author), R. David Edmunds (Foreword by)

9780806119656

Paperback / softback, published 15 April 1986

288 pages, 17 black & white illustrations, 4 maps
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.438 kg

After their first contacts with whites in the seventeenth century, the Kansa Indians began migrating from the eastern United States to what is now eastern Kansas, by way of the Missouri Valley. Settling in villages mostly along the Kansas River, they led a semi-sedentary life, raising corn and a few vegetables and hunting buffalo in the spring and fall. It was an idyllic existence-until bad, and then worse, things began to happen.

William E. Unrau tells how the Kansa Indians were reduced from a proud people with a strong cultural heritage to a remnant forced against their will to take up the whites' ways. He gives a balanced but hard-hitting account of an important and tragic chapter in American history.