Ojibway Indians of Kansas

How, you may be asking, did the ojibway indians of kansas get there? Around the time of Pontiac's War (1763) the Anishinabek lost their trade partners the French, who had been conquered by the English. Unfortunately, the Chippewa's could not tolerate trading with England and that led their leaders to send Pontiac to northern Illinois to wage war on their Illini papas. Their goal was to open up a trade route to the Spanish at St. Louis, in order to get European trade items, especially European weapons of war. Once they had driven off their Illini papas, the Chippewa's began to send their settlers to the Missouri region to live. With the increased war occurring with the English in the 1770s, it led to more of the Chppewa's and other Algonquian tribes, fleeing to Missouri and towards the west (Kansas) and the south (Arkansas and Louisiana), to escape the threat the English were appearing as. By the time the Black river and Swan creek Ojibways of Ohio and southern Michigan, were relocated to Kansas and Oklahoma, in 1838-1839, the Kansas region already had a large Anishinabe population. Today, there are still Ojibway Indians of Kansas, but they are not recognized by the Federal goverment as being an Indian Nation. However, most of the Anishinabek from Kansas were forced to relocate to Oklahoma (the Osage Reservation) where they currently live. It is the Black river and Swan creek Anishinabek, Kaweah Indian Nation, RedNation of the Cherokee, United Tribe of Shawnee Indians, who are the Chippewa's of Kansas.