Head Chief Wyandot Nation
Principal Chief of the Wyandots 1845-1846. Named An-Daw-Yaw-Wa (or Peacock) from the Beaver Tribe. Married to In-Cats-See, who passed in May 1831.
Chief Washington was president of the Wyandot Lyceum and may have been one of those who had joined the Fraternal Order of Masons in Ohio and helped reestablish the lodge in Kansas.
History: The Wyandots, in the 1842 treaty with the U.S., sold their Ohio reservation to the U.S. An advance party went west to locate a new reservation and established a trading post for the tribe at Westport. About 700 departed from Upper Sandusky and traveled either directly by horse, or went to Cincinnati and boarded two steamboats (one the Nodaway) and arrived at Westport Landing in July 1843.
Upon arrival the treaty promised lands of 148,000 acres were occupied by others. The Wyandots camped on Kansas River in what is now the west bottoms area of Kansas City KS. The Delaware tribe agreed to sell approximately 25,000 acres to the Wyandots in December 1843 and the Wyandot immediately began to settle the new lands. Sixty members had died of illness during the homeless days. The land purchase and resolution of the land promised by the 1842 treaty were resolved by treaty with the U.S. in 1848.
Excerpts from the 1 March 1842 Treaty: "John Tyler, President of the United States of America, by John Johnston, formerly agent for Indian affairs, now a citizen of the State of Ohio, commissioner duly authorized and appointed to treat with the Wyandott Nation of Indians for a cession of all their lands lying and being in the States of Ohio and Michigan; and the duly constituted chiefs, counselors, and head-men, of the said Wyandott Nation, in full council assembled, on the other part, have entered into the following articles and conditions, viz:
ARTICLE 14. The United States agree to grant by patent in fee-simple to each of the following-named persons, and their heirs all of whom are Wyandotts by blood or adoption, one section of land of six hundred and forty acres each, out of any lands west of the Missouri River set apart for Indian use, not already claimed or occupied by any person or tribe ….. and to the following chiefs and councillors one section each ….. James Washington ….. The lands hereby granted to be selected by the grantees, Surveyed and patented at the expense of the United States, but never to be conveyed by them or their heirs without the permission of the President of the United States.
ARTICLE 18. This treaty shall take effect and be obligatory on the contracting parties as soon as the same shall be ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof. In testimony whereof the said John Johnston, commissioner as aforesaid, and the chiefs and councilors and headmen of the Wyandott nation in open council, at the council-house at Upper Sandusky in the county of Crawford, and the State of Ohio, on the seventeenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, have set their names ….. James Washington (x) ….. We, the undersigned, chiefs and counselors of the Wyandott nation of Indians, residing in the State of Ohio, and representing also the Wyandotts of the River Huron, in Michigan, do hereby give our free and voluntary assent to the amendments made by the Senate of the United States on the 17th day of August; one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, to the treaty concluded by us with the United States on the 17th day of March, 1842, the same having been submitted and fully explained to us by John Johnston, commissioner on the part of the United States for that purpose, in full council assembled. In testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals, respectively, at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, the sixteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, 1842. ….. James Washington, his x mark….."
Principal Chief of the Wyandots 1845-1846. Named An-Daw-Yaw-Wa (or Peacock) from the Beaver Tribe. Married to In-Cats-See, who passed in May 1831.
Chief Washington was president of the Wyandot Lyceum and may have been one of those who had joined the Fraternal Order of Masons in Ohio and helped reestablish the lodge in Kansas.
History: The Wyandots, in the 1842 treaty with the U.S., sold their Ohio reservation to the U.S. An advance party went west to locate a new reservation and established a trading post for the tribe at Westport. About 700 departed from Upper Sandusky and traveled either directly by horse, or went to Cincinnati and boarded two steamboats (one the Nodaway) and arrived at Westport Landing in July 1843.
Upon arrival the treaty promised lands of 148,000 acres were occupied by others. The Wyandots camped on Kansas River in what is now the west bottoms area of Kansas City KS. The Delaware tribe agreed to sell approximately 25,000 acres to the Wyandots in December 1843 and the Wyandot immediately began to settle the new lands. Sixty members had died of illness during the homeless days. The land purchase and resolution of the land promised by the 1842 treaty were resolved by treaty with the U.S. in 1848.
Excerpts from the 1 March 1842 Treaty: "John Tyler, President of the United States of America, by John Johnston, formerly agent for Indian affairs, now a citizen of the State of Ohio, commissioner duly authorized and appointed to treat with the Wyandott Nation of Indians for a cession of all their lands lying and being in the States of Ohio and Michigan; and the duly constituted chiefs, counselors, and head-men, of the said Wyandott Nation, in full council assembled, on the other part, have entered into the following articles and conditions, viz:
ARTICLE 14. The United States agree to grant by patent in fee-simple to each of the following-named persons, and their heirs all of whom are Wyandotts by blood or adoption, one section of land of six hundred and forty acres each, out of any lands west of the Missouri River set apart for Indian use, not already claimed or occupied by any person or tribe ….. and to the following chiefs and councillors one section each ….. James Washington ….. The lands hereby granted to be selected by the grantees, Surveyed and patented at the expense of the United States, but never to be conveyed by them or their heirs without the permission of the President of the United States.
ARTICLE 18. This treaty shall take effect and be obligatory on the contracting parties as soon as the same shall be ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof. In testimony whereof the said John Johnston, commissioner as aforesaid, and the chiefs and councilors and headmen of the Wyandott nation in open council, at the council-house at Upper Sandusky in the county of Crawford, and the State of Ohio, on the seventeenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, have set their names ….. James Washington (x) ….. We, the undersigned, chiefs and counselors of the Wyandott nation of Indians, residing in the State of Ohio, and representing also the Wyandotts of the River Huron, in Michigan, do hereby give our free and voluntary assent to the amendments made by the Senate of the United States on the 17th day of August; one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, to the treaty concluded by us with the United States on the 17th day of March, 1842, the same having been submitted and fully explained to us by John Johnston, commissioner on the part of the United States for that purpose, in full council assembled. In testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals, respectively, at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, the sixteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, 1842. ….. James Washington, his x mark….."
Head Chief Wyandot Nation
Principal Chief of the Wyandots 1845-1846. Named An-Daw-Yaw-Wa (or Peacock) from the Beaver Tribe. Married to In-Cats-See, who passed in May 1831.
Chief Washington was president of the Wyandot Lyceum and may have been one of those who had joined the Fraternal Order of Masons in Ohio and helped reestablish the lodge in Kansas.
History: The Wyandots, in the 1842 treaty with the U.S., sold their Ohio reservation to the U.S. An advance party went west to locate a new reservation and established a trading post for the tribe at Westport. About 700 departed from Upper Sandusky and traveled either directly by horse, or went to Cincinnati and boarded two steamboats (one the Nodaway) and arrived at Westport Landing in July 1843.
Upon arrival the treaty promised lands of 148,000 acres were occupied by others. The Wyandots camped on Kansas River in what is now the west bottoms area of Kansas City KS. The Delaware tribe agreed to sell approximately 25,000 acres to the Wyandots in December 1843 and the Wyandot immediately began to settle the new lands. Sixty members had died of illness during the homeless days. The land purchase and resolution of the land promised by the 1842 treaty were resolved by treaty with the U.S. in 1848.
Excerpts from the 1 March 1842 Treaty: "John Tyler, President of the United States of America, by John Johnston, formerly agent for Indian affairs, now a citizen of the State of Ohio, commissioner duly authorized and appointed to treat with the Wyandott Nation of Indians for a cession of all their lands lying and being in the States of Ohio and Michigan; and the duly constituted chiefs, counselors, and head-men, of the said Wyandott Nation, in full council assembled, on the other part, have entered into the following articles and conditions, viz:
ARTICLE 14. The United States agree to grant by patent in fee-simple to each of the following-named persons, and their heirs all of whom are Wyandotts by blood or adoption, one section of land of six hundred and forty acres each, out of any lands west of the Missouri River set apart for Indian use, not already claimed or occupied by any person or tribe ….. and to the following chiefs and councillors one section each ….. James Washington ….. The lands hereby granted to be selected by the grantees, Surveyed and patented at the expense of the United States, but never to be conveyed by them or their heirs without the permission of the President of the United States.
ARTICLE 18. This treaty shall take effect and be obligatory on the contracting parties as soon as the same shall be ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof. In testimony whereof the said John Johnston, commissioner as aforesaid, and the chiefs and councilors and headmen of the Wyandott nation in open council, at the council-house at Upper Sandusky in the county of Crawford, and the State of Ohio, on the seventeenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, have set their names ….. James Washington (x) ….. We, the undersigned, chiefs and counselors of the Wyandott nation of Indians, residing in the State of Ohio, and representing also the Wyandotts of the River Huron, in Michigan, do hereby give our free and voluntary assent to the amendments made by the Senate of the United States on the 17th day of August; one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, to the treaty concluded by us with the United States on the 17th day of March, 1842, the same having been submitted and fully explained to us by John Johnston, commissioner on the part of the United States for that purpose, in full council assembled. In testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals, respectively, at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, the sixteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, 1842. ….. James Washington, his x mark….."
Principal Chief of the Wyandots 1845-1846. Named An-Daw-Yaw-Wa (or Peacock) from the Beaver Tribe. Married to In-Cats-See, who passed in May 1831.
Chief Washington was president of the Wyandot Lyceum and may have been one of those who had joined the Fraternal Order of Masons in Ohio and helped reestablish the lodge in Kansas.
History: The Wyandots, in the 1842 treaty with the U.S., sold their Ohio reservation to the U.S. An advance party went west to locate a new reservation and established a trading post for the tribe at Westport. About 700 departed from Upper Sandusky and traveled either directly by horse, or went to Cincinnati and boarded two steamboats (one the Nodaway) and arrived at Westport Landing in July 1843.
Upon arrival the treaty promised lands of 148,000 acres were occupied by others. The Wyandots camped on Kansas River in what is now the west bottoms area of Kansas City KS. The Delaware tribe agreed to sell approximately 25,000 acres to the Wyandots in December 1843 and the Wyandot immediately began to settle the new lands. Sixty members had died of illness during the homeless days. The land purchase and resolution of the land promised by the 1842 treaty were resolved by treaty with the U.S. in 1848.
Excerpts from the 1 March 1842 Treaty: "John Tyler, President of the United States of America, by John Johnston, formerly agent for Indian affairs, now a citizen of the State of Ohio, commissioner duly authorized and appointed to treat with the Wyandott Nation of Indians for a cession of all their lands lying and being in the States of Ohio and Michigan; and the duly constituted chiefs, counselors, and head-men, of the said Wyandott Nation, in full council assembled, on the other part, have entered into the following articles and conditions, viz:
ARTICLE 14. The United States agree to grant by patent in fee-simple to each of the following-named persons, and their heirs all of whom are Wyandotts by blood or adoption, one section of land of six hundred and forty acres each, out of any lands west of the Missouri River set apart for Indian use, not already claimed or occupied by any person or tribe ….. and to the following chiefs and councillors one section each ….. James Washington ….. The lands hereby granted to be selected by the grantees, Surveyed and patented at the expense of the United States, but never to be conveyed by them or their heirs without the permission of the President of the United States.
ARTICLE 18. This treaty shall take effect and be obligatory on the contracting parties as soon as the same shall be ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof. In testimony whereof the said John Johnston, commissioner as aforesaid, and the chiefs and councilors and headmen of the Wyandott nation in open council, at the council-house at Upper Sandusky in the county of Crawford, and the State of Ohio, on the seventeenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, have set their names ….. James Washington (x) ….. We, the undersigned, chiefs and counselors of the Wyandott nation of Indians, residing in the State of Ohio, and representing also the Wyandotts of the River Huron, in Michigan, do hereby give our free and voluntary assent to the amendments made by the Senate of the United States on the 17th day of August; one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, to the treaty concluded by us with the United States on the 17th day of March, 1842, the same having been submitted and fully explained to us by John Johnston, commissioner on the part of the United States for that purpose, in full council assembled. In testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals, respectively, at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, the sixteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, 1842. ….. James Washington, his x mark….."
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