Editing Manhattan, Kansas (section)

===Indigenous tribes settlement===
[[File:War dance in the interiour of a Konza lodge.jpg|thumb|left|This 1819 illustration of a [[Kaw people|Kansa]] lodge at the current location of Manhattan is the oldest drawing known to be made in Kansas.]]
{{See also|History of Kansas}}

Before settlement by European-Americans in the 1850s, the land around Manhattan was home to Native tribes.<ref name=Frontier>{{cite book | last = Olson | first = Kevin | title = Frontier Manhattan | publisher = University Press of Kansas | year = 2012 | pages = 9–10, 25–27 | isbn = 978-0-7006-1832-3}}</ref> From 1780 to 1830, it was home to the [[Kaw people]], also known as the Kansa.<ref name=Frontier/> The Kaw settlement was called Blue Earth Village (Manyinkatuhuudje),<ref name=Frontier/> named after the river which the tribe had named the Great Blue Earth River, today known as the [[Big Blue River (Kansas)|Big Blue River]], which intersected with the [[Kansas River]] near their village.<ref name=Frontier/> Blue Earth Village was the site of a large battle between the Kaw and the [[Pawnee people|Pawnee]] in 1812.<ref name=Frontier/>

The Kaw tribe ceded ownership of this land in a [[treaty]] signed at the [[Shawnee Methodist Mission]] on January 14, 1846.<ref name=Frontier/><ref>{{Citation | title = Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties | publisher = U.S. Government Printing Office | year = 1904 | url = http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/vol2/treaties/kan0552.htm | access-date = August 28, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090417085310/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Kappler/Vol2/treaties/kan0552.htm | archive-date = April 17, 2009 | url-status = dead }}</ref>