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- Arriving in Kansas the Ottawa found abundant game, grass, and water, but the hot dry air the antithesis of the humid climate at their Ohio reservation caused many to sicken and die.
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In 1862, a treaty planned to distribute and open to purchase by white settlers the Ottawa lands in Kansas after five years. When he became chief in 1865, John Wilson concluded that many Ottawas were likely to end up landless and penniless due to the treaty.
The Ottawa sold their land in Kansas and were removed to Indian Territory, in Oklahoma. Later the school was named Ottawa University after the Ottawa. The reservation where the Ottawa lived became a township named after them.
In 1836, the Ottawa were removed from Ohio and moved to their Kansas reservation, watered by the Marais des Cygnes River. The same year, the Sac and Fox were removed from Missouri and moved to the Kansas side of the river. In 1837, the Pottawatomi began to gather in the Indian Territory.
As one of their first acts after removing from Kansas and settling in Indian Territory in 1870, the Ottawa tribal council set aside land for educational purposes and ordered the construction of a schoolhouse—this became the Ottawa Mission School.
The Ottawas were found on the Georgian Bay by Champlain in 1615. They seem to have been a people who traded much with other tribes. They had developed a commerce in tobacco, medicinal herbs and roots, rugs, mats, furs and skins, cornmeal, and an oil made of the seeds of the sunflower.
The Ottawa were always a factor in the wars waged by the Indians against the advancing settlers. Rev. Jotham Meeker. On the 26th day of September, 1833, the Ottawa ceded their lands on the west shore of Lake Michigan for a reservation in the country which was to become Kansas.
Most Odawa remained in northern Michigan or southern Ontario, but in the 1830s some Odawa agreed to move to a reservation in Kansas. In 1867 the Kansas Odawa were resettled in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).
