This map was created by Chester Hubbard, senior in Geography, K-State University and Prairie Band Potawatomi member, using data from the “Morrill Act of 1862 Indigenous Land Parcels Database,” a publicly- available database available at: https://github.com/HCN-Digital-Projects/landgrabu-data. This map documents land cessions that were later used to support the Morrill Act of 1862, funding institutions of higher education in the US, including K-State.
Chester Hubbard describes this map as follows: “The representation progressively shows how much land was lost between 1825 and 1847 due to treaty cessions. It also shows the land parcels that were later given to Kansas State University through the Morrill Act of 1862. The data that I used to create this representation were shapefiles and tables acquired from the Morrill Act of 1862 Indigenous Land Parcels Database which documents the amount of land that was taken from Indigenous nations and given to universities like Kansas State University, as well as the USDA Forest Service. The software that I used to make the map from that data was ArcGIS Pro. My design choices for the map were to keep the map basic and easy to read for the user without overwhelming them. This map is important to show the magnitude of the land loss experienced by the Kanza.”
Below are the original handwritten treaties:
