Osage Tribe Would Have Never Been In Favor Of The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act

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The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act was an act, which allowed new territories to decide if they were a free or slave state by popular sovereignty (Civilwar.org, Kansas-Nebraska Act). Kansas-Nebraska Act negated the Missouri Compromise. Missouri Compromise was an effort by the congress to diffuse the political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri in 1819 for admission as a state in which supported slavery (Garraty and Foner). This was done to restore the balance of slave and free states at the time. Kansas-Nebraska Act violated the compromise that was made in the Missouri Compromise, it reignited the disagreement between the anti and pro-slavery factions, which lead to violent events. This act prematurely pushed Osage Indians from their land by encroaching white settlers and it had a very negative effect on them. Which is why I believe Osage Tribe would have never been in favor of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. …show more content…

(Louis F. Burns, 2004). The Osage Indians are a seminomadic tribe. They were known for their hunting, gardening and foraging (Louis F. Burns, 2004). They would hunt buffalo, deer, rabbit and other wild animals in the central and eastern parts of their domain (James O. Dorsey, 1888). While the men of the Osage tribe were responsible for the hunting, the women were known to butcher and prepare the meat by drying or smoking methods and they also gathered and grew plants in that area (Burns, L. F, 2004). Seeing as The Kansas-Nebraska Act did reduce the size of their territory and also lead to the arrival of white settlers on their land. It was the epidemic that cost them the most. The size of their tribe declined from 8000 in 1850 to 3500 in 1860 (Robertson R. G,

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