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Hard Chief’s Village (
14SH301) is an archeological site that was
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The Kansas Anthropologist, Volume 10

NOTES ON GREAT BEND ASPECT CERAMIC VESSELS IN THE KSHS COLLECTIONS

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ARCHEOLOGY AT HARD CHIEF VILLAGE: AN INTRODUCTORY STUDY
OF THE KANSA INDIAN EXPERIENCE IN THE AMERICAN WEST, 1806- 1846

by James O. Marshall, Topeka, Kansas

This study is an addendum to previously published archeological reports concerning excavations carried out at Hard Chief` village, 14SH301, a historic Kansa Indian village. The excavators were members of the Kansas Anthropological Association, participating in the 1987 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school, sponsored by the Kansas State Historical Society.

Added to the previous reports is a detailed description of the recovered artifacts and an introductory historical review of events and personalities that led to the establishment of the village and during its occupation from 1830 to 1847. The presence of overlapping houses tends to confirm historical documentation that Hard Chief abandoned the site in 1844 and that another village, led by a chief identified as Broken Thigh, existed there until 1847.

There were other occupants at the site, but they are only noted in this report. The emphasis is on the Kansa Indian occupation. Some cord-roughened pottery sherds and stone tools are identifiers of an earlier Woodland culture known as the Grasshopper Falls phase.

Other specimens are remnants of modern farming activity.

 



 

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Hard Chief's Village - Silver Lake vicinity, Shawnee County Hard Chief's Village (14SH301) is an archeological site that was the location of a Kansa Indian village occupied from 1830 to 1844. The village was situated on a high ridge overlooking the south side of the Kansas River valley and the west side of the mouth of Mission Creek.

 

At the time of occupation, it contained at least 50-60 earthlodges sheltering between 500 and 600 people. The surrounding uplands were covered with prairie grasses, while the nearby river valleys were wooded. The archeological site as it exists today is at the western edge of the Topeka metropolitan area.

 

Agriculture has dominated the vicinity for decades, but residential development is encroaching. The eastern third of the site has been heavily cultivated, while the western portion is an overgrown pasture. Hard Chief's Village is significant for its potential to yield significant information regarding Kansa tribal movements, lifeways, and cultural change during the early 19th century in eastern Kansas.

 

The site is particularly important,
as it is one of only two known surviving Kansa villages to have been conclusively identified and confirmed by archaeological excavation.

JSTOR: Current Research

... the Grasshopper Falls phase currently is considered the Plains Woodland ... The program was cosponsored by the KSHS and the Kansas Anthropological Asso- ...
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The Ancell site (50T124) is a red ochre, Plains Woodland or early Apishapa
.... contexts in direct association with Grasshopper Falls phase pottery. ...
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THE HANTHORNE SITE (14LT335),
A LATE WOODLAND SITE IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS

pottery. Middle Woodland Cuesta phase ceramics include both cord marked and plain wares, typically with decoration, consisting of punctations, cross- ...
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Lethal Contact Kanza Reservations

About a mile from this village was Hard Chief’s village situated on a high
... Kaw were removed to a reservation in Oklahoma, then called "Indian Territory. ...
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Print Two Cultures Kansa

However, it is uncertain that the word Kanza means anything at all to the Kaws themselves,
..... only six hundred Kaws made the trip to Indian Territory. ...
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Kaw Nation History

THE KANZA Tribal Seal symbolizes the People's relationship with the South Wind. .... American Chief, Big John, Big Wolfe, Hard Chief, Hard Hart, Ke-kah-bah, ...
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Indian History, Part 2

From the time that Father Marquette inscribed the name of the "Kanza" ...
Hard Chief's
village, about a mile from the former, was situated on a high bluff ...
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Big Blue River

Hard Chief had fixed his village, in 1830, about a mile above the mouth ....
Cone, dated August, 1879, says: ‘I first entered the
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Indians - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912

Hard Chief's village, nearer the river, had some 500 or 600 inhabitants,
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The Indians realized that if the territory was organized it meant they would ...
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Furthering Their Own Demise: How Kansa Indian Death Customs ...

Kansa Territory, ca. 1800–1824. The core of the Kansa centered on
.... Hard Chief’s village of five to six hundred Indians occupied ...
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The villages were named the Village of Hard Chief, Village of American Chief,
... area and is the site of the large Kanza Greenhouse, operated by the tribe. ...
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