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{{Short description|Federally recognized Native American tribe}}
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{{Infobox ethnic group
| group = Kaw Nation
| image = File:The Kansa, or Kaw Indians, and their history, and the story of Padilla (1908) (14765828805).jpg
| image_caption =Three Kaw Nation chiefs in 1908
| population = 3,559<ref name=oia>[http://kawnation.com/ Kaw Nation population as officially rallied at top right.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512040555/http://www.ok.gov/oiac/documents/2011.FINAL.WEB.pdf |date=2012-05-12 }} ''Oklahoma Indian Affairs Commission.'' 2011: 17. Retrieved 4 January 2012.</ref>
| popplace = [[United States]] ({{hlist|style=display:inline-block|[[Oklahoma]]|[[Kansas]]}})
| langs = [[English language|English]], historically [[Kansa language|Kansa]]
| rels = [[Native American Church]], [[Christianity]], traditional tribal religion
| related = other [[Sioux|Siouan]] and [[Dhegihan languages|Dhegihan]] peoples
| native_name = 
| native_name_lang = 
}}
[[File:Kaw nation tower.png|thumb|upright|Water tower of the Kaw nation, along I-35 in Oklahoma]]
[[File:Kno-Shr, Kansas Chief MET DP332503.jpg|thumb|KnoShr, Kansa Chief, 1853]]
The '''Kaw Nation''' (or '''Kanza''' or '''Kansa''') is a [[Federally recognized tribe|federally recognized]] [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] tribe in [[Oklahoma]] and parts of [[Kansas]]. 

The Kaw people historically lived in the central [[Midwestern United States]]. They have also been called the "People of the South wind",<ref name=con>[http://kawnation.com/?page_id=3312 "Constitution of the Kaw Nation."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190803003621/http://kawnation.com/?page_id=3312 |date=2019-08-03 }} ''Kaw Nation.'' 2011. Retrieved 30 April 2012.</ref> "People of water", ''Kansa'', ''Kaza'', ''Konza'', ''Conza'', ''Quans'', ''Kosa'', and ''Kasa''. Their tribal language is [[Kansa language|Kansa]], classified as a [[Siouan languages|Siouan language]].<ref name=ohs>{{cite web |last1=Unrau |first1=William E. |title=Kaw (Kansa) |url=https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=KA001 |website=The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture |access-date=11 February 2024 |date=January 15, 2010}}</ref>

The state of [[Kansas]] was named for this tribe. The name of [[Topeka]], capital city of Kansas, is said to be the Kaw word ''{{lang|ksk|Tó Ppí Kˀé}}'' meaning "a good place to grow potatoes".<ref>Connelley, William E. "Origin of the Name of Topeka" ''Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society'', Vol 27, 589-593.</ref> The Kaw are closely related to the [[Osage Nation]], with whom members often intermarried.

== Government ==
The Kaw Nation's headquarters is in [[Kaw City, Oklahoma]], and the tribal jurisdictional area is within [[Kay County, Oklahoma]]. The elected chairwoman is Lynn Williams currently serving a four-year term. Of the 3,126 enrolled members, 1,428 live within the state of Oklahoma.<ref name=oia />

== Economy ==
The estimated annual economic impact of the tribe is $200 million.<ref name=oia /> Kaw Nation owns the Kanza Travel Plaza; Woodridge Market; Smoke Shop I, and II; SouthWind Casino; including a bingo hall, and an off-track wagering facility; and SouthWind Casino Braman, which opened September 2014. The tribe also operates the Kanza Health Clinic, Kanza Wellness Center, Kaw Nation School Age Enrichment Center, Kanza Museum, Kaw Nation Environmental Department, Kaw Nation Police Department, Kaw Nation Social Service and Educational Department, Kaw Nation Emergency Management Department, Kaw Language Department, and the Kaw Nation Judicial Branch. The Kaw Nation Judicial Branch includes a domestic violence program. The Kaw Nation operates its own Housing Authority, library, Title VI Food Services, and issues its own tribal vehicle tags.<ref name="kanza">[http://www.kawnation.com/Culture/culthist.html Kanza Cultural History.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090414064320/http://www.kawnation.com/Culture/culthist.html |date=2009-04-14 }} ''The Kaw Nation.'' (retrieved 29 April 2012)</ref> The ''Kanza News'', the newsletter of Kaw Nation, is published quarterly.

== History ==

=== Early history ===
The Kaw is a member of the [[Dhegiha]] branch of the [[Siouan]] language family. [[oral tradition|Oral history]] indicates that the ancestors of [[Dhegihan History and Separation|the five Dhegiha tribes migrated]] west from the east, possibly somewhere around the [[Ohio River|Ohio]] Valley. The [[Quapaw]] separated from the other Dhegiha at the mouth of the Ohio, going down the Mississippi River to live in what is today the state of [[Arkansas]]. The other Dhegiha proceeded up the [[Mississippi River|Mississippi]] and [[Missouri River]]s. The [[Osage Nation|Osage]] left the main group in central Missouri; the Kaw halted upstream on the Missouri River in northwestern Missouri and northeastern Kansas; the [[Omaha people|Omaha]] and [[Ponca]] continued north to settle in [[Nebraska]] and [[South Dakota]].<ref>Unrau, William E. ''Kansa Indians: A History of the Wind People, 1673–1873'', Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971: 12-14.</ref>

This tradition is reinforced by the fact that the [[Illinois tribe|Illinois]] and [[Miami tribe|Miami]] tribes called the lower Ohio and [[Wabash River]]s the Akansea River, because, as they told French explorers, the Akansea (Quapaw) formerly dwelt there.<ref>[http://www.gbl.indiana.edu/archives/miamis4/M17-03_12a.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620211032/http://www.gbl.indiana.edu/archives/miamis4/M17-03_12a.html|date=2010-06-20}} Accessed, Feb 21, 2010</ref>

The Dhegiha may have migrated westward in the early to mid-17th century. The reason for leaving the traditional home may have been due to the mass displacement westward of Indian tribes caused by European settlement on the Atlantic Coast of the United States. The first certain record of the Dhegiha is 1673 when the French explorer of the Mississippi River, [[Jacques Marquette|Pere Marquette]], drew a crude map which showed the Dhegiha tribes near their historic locations.<ref>Dorsey, James Owen, "Migration of the Siouan Tribes," ''The American Naturalist'', Vol XX, Mar 1886, 214.</ref>

The French explorer [[Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont|Bourgmont]] was the first European to document his visit to the Kaws in 1724. He found them living in a single large village near the future site of the town of [[Doniphan, Kansas]].<ref>Norall, Frank. ''Bourgmont, Explorer of the Missouri, 1698–1725''. Lincoln: University of Neb Press, 1988, 51</ref> The Kaw later lived farther downstream near the French [[Fort de Cavagnial]] (1744-1764). By the late 1700s, the Kanza took up residence on the [[Kansas River]],<ref name=Visit>{{cite web| last = Ritterbush | first = Lauren | title = Visit to Blue Earth Village | publisher = Kansas History | year = 2015 | pages = 2–31 | url=https://www.kshs.org/publicat/history/2015spring_ritterbush.pdf}}</ref> but the ruins of their earlier villages and Fort Cavagnial were a landmark for travelers in the early 1800s. When [[Lewis and Clark]] ascended the Missouri, they noted passing the site of the French post and Kansa village on July 2, 1804,<ref>[https://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/item/lc.jrn.1804-07-02], Accessed, Ce 12, 2020</ref> and the "old village of the Kanzas" of 1724 on July 2, 1804.<ref>[http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/read/?_xmlscr=1804-07-02.xml&_xslsrc=LCstyles.xsl], Accessed, Feb 23, 2010</ref>

=== Traditional culture and subsistence ===
The primary village of the Kanza between about 1790 and 1828 was along the Kansas River near the confluence with the Big Blue River of Kansas.<ref name=Visit/>  The Kaw had camped and hunted along the Kansas River for at least a century. Moving its primary village to the Kansas River valley put the Kaw closer to the bison herds they hunted annually, and it removed them from other tribes that visited the trading posts along the Missouri River.  This new settlement was distanced from the sometimes antagonistic relations with tribes from east of the Missouri River, but was closer to the Pawnee, with whom they were often in conflict. [[Lewis and Clark]] noted that their numbers were "reduced by war with their neighbors". They estimated the Kaw to number 300 men—about 1,500 persons in all.<ref name="LC">[http://lewisandclarkjournals.unledu/read/?_xmlsrc=1804-06-28.xml&_sslsrc=LCstyles.xsl]{{Dead link|date=August 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}} Accessed, Feb 23, 2010</ref>

=== Interaction with the United States ===
[[File:Monchousia by Charles Bird King, 1822.jpg|thumb|upright|Chief Monchousia (White Plume) by [[Charles Bird King]], {{circa|1822}}. On display in the [[White House]].]]
The purchase by the United States of [[Louisiana Territory]] in 1803 led to disastrous impacts on the Kaw. They were increasingly hemmed in, first, by Eastern Indians forced to migrate west and, secondly, by White settlers who coveted the "beautiful aspects" and "rich and exuberant soils" of Kaw lands.<ref>Unrau, ''Kansa Indians'', 105</ref> West of the Kaw lived the warlike [[Cheyenne]] and [[Comanche]], and to the north were the [[Pawnee people|Pawnee]], their traditional enemies. In 1825, the Kaw ceded a huge area of land in Missouri and Kansas to the United States in exchange for a promise of an annuity of $3,500 annually for twenty years. The promised annuity—to be paid in goods and services—was often late in arriving or found its way into the pockets of unscrupulous government officials and merchants. The Kaw were indifferent to the pleas of government agents and missionaries that they take up farming as their sole livelihood.

Meanwhile, the Kaw faced [[smallpox]] [[epidemics]] in 1827–1828 and 1831–1832, which killed about 500.<ref>Unrau, ''Kansa Indians'', 149-150</ref> During the same period the tribe split into four different competing groups living in different villages, a consequence of rivalry between three groups of conservatives, who favored retaining traditional ways, and one group under [[White Plume]] which favored accommodation with the United States. Important in the latter group were 23 mixed bloods, the sons and daughters of French traders who had taken Kaw wives. The French influence among the Kaw is still seen in common surnames such as Pappan, Bellmard, and Chouteau.

[[File:Kansas Indian village Barber 1865p637 cropped.jpg|thumb|Engraving of Fool Chief's village of the 1840s along the Kansas River by [[Pierre-Jean De Smet]] ]]
A disastrous flood in 1844 destroyed most of the land the Kaw had planted and left the tribe destitute. In 1846, the Kaw sold most of their remaining {{convert|2000000|acre|km2}} of land for $202,000 plus a {{convert|256000|acre|km2}} reservation centered on [[Council Grove, Kansas]].<ref>Unrau, ibid, 159-161</ref> Council Grove is a beautiful area of forests, water, and tall grass prairie, but it was probably the worst location that could have been selected for the already weakened and demoralized tribe. It was a favorite stopping place for the rough-hewn teamsters and traders and voracious merchants on the [[Santa Fe Trail]]. The first Kaw arriving there were beaten up by traders.<ref>Unrau, ''Kansa Indians'' 163</ref> The flourishing whiskey trade in Council Grove also proved to be deleterious. Whites invaded Indian lands and sporadic efforts by soldiers to force them off the reservation were ineffective. In 1860, the Kaw reservation, overrun by white settlers, was reduced to {{convert|80000|acre|km2}}.

With the coming of the [[American Civil War]] in 1861, the Kaw and other Indians in Kansas suddenly became an asset as the state recruited them as soldiers and scouts to stave off invasions by slave-holding tribes and Confederate supporters in Indian Territory. Seventy young Kaw men were persuaded—or forced—to join Company L, [[9th Kansas Cavalry Regiment]]. They served in Indian Territory ([[Oklahoma]]) and Arkansas during the war and 21 of them never came home—a large loss to the already diminished numbers of the tribe.<ref>National Archives, Record Group M-234, Tape 467, page 476</ref>

[[File:Al-le-ga-wa-ho, 1867.jpg|thumb|upright|Allegawaho, head chief of the Kaws<ref>http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/208389 (website of the Kansas Historical Society)</ref> in the 1860s and 1870s, in a photo from 1867]]
After the war, European-Americans in Kansas agitated for [[Indian removal|removal of Indians]], including the Kaw. However, amidst the gloom of a tribe that seemed likely to disintegrate came one colorful moment. The Kaw and the Cheyenne had long been enemies. On June 1, 1868, about one hundred Cheyenne warriors descended on the Kaw reservation. Terrified white settlers took refuge in Council Grove. The Kaw men painted their faces, donned their finery, and sallied forth on horseback to meet the Cheyenne. The two Indian armies put on a military pageant featuring horsemanship, fearsome howls and curses, and volleys of bullets and arrows. After four hours, the Cheyenne retired with a few stolen horses and a peace offering of coffee and sugar by the Council Grove merchants. Nobody was hurt on either side.

During the battle, the mixed-blood Kaw interpreter, [[Joseph James and Joseph James, Jr.|Joseph James, Jr.]] (more commonly known as Jojim or Joe Jim) galloped 60 miles to Topeka to request assistance from the Governor. Riding along with Jojim was an eight-year-old, part-Indian boy named [[Charles Curtis]] or "Indian Charley". Curtis would later become a jockey, a lawyer, a politician, and Vice President of the United States under [[Herbert Hoover]].<ref>Unrau, William E. ''Mixed Bloods and Tribal Dissolution: Charles Curtis and the Quest for Indian Identity'', Norman: University of Okla Press, 1971: 72-75.</ref>

White pressure finally forced the Kaw out of Kansas. On June 4, 1873, they packed up their meager possessions in wagons and headed south to [[Indian Territory]] to a new reservation. Two weeks later, 533 men, women, and children arrived at the junction of the Arkansas River and Beaver Creek in what would become [[Kay County, Oklahoma]].<ref>Unrau, ''Mixed Bloods'', 92</ref> The Kaw made their last successful buffalo hunt that winter, journeying on horseback to the [[Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge|Great Salt Plains]]. They preserved the buffalo meat by jerking it and sold the buffalo robes for five thousand dollars.<ref>[http://www.poncacitynews.com/community/localhistory/genhis/ncoha/kansas.htm] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120908125908/http://www.poncacitynews.com/community/localhistory/genhis/ncoha/kansas.htm|date=2012-09-08}} Accessed, Aug 12, 1999.</ref>

The Kaw continued their decline in Oklahoma. In 1879, their agent reported that nearly half of their number had died of contagious diseases in the previous seven years. In the 1880s and 1890s, the Kaw derived much of their income from leasing their land to white ranchers for grazing. In 1884, to manage grazing leases, they elected a government with a Chief Councilor and a representative from each of the four Kaw bands: the Picayune, Koholo, Rock Creek, and Half-breed. Washungah was elected as the Chief Councilor in 1885 and the tribal headquarters was later named [[Washunga, Oklahoma|Washunga]] to honor him.<ref>Finney, Frank F. "The Kaw Indians and their Indian Territory Agency." ''Chronicles of Oklahoma.'' Vol. 35, 1957–58, p. 418</ref>

=== 20th century ===
[[File:Washunga.jpg|thumb|upright|Chief Washunga of the Kaw, {{circa|1900}}]]
The Kaws found security from white harassment on their Indian Territory lands, but the tribe continued to decline, especially the full bloods. By 1888 they numbered only 188 persons and the Kaws seemed on the road to extinction.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080509195048/http://www.kawnation.com/culture/kanzahistory.php Accessed, Feb 22, 2010.]</ref> However, they slowly acculturated and their numbers increased, mostly through intermarriage as the number of full-bloods continued to decline. By 1910, only one old woman in the tribe could not speak English and more than 80 percent were literate.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/kansas/.|title=Accessed Feb 22,2010. Reddy, Marlita A., ed. ''Statistical Record of Native North Americans'', Detroit: Gale Research, 166, 189|date=19 February 2015}}</ref>

The [[Curtis Act of 1898]] expanded the powers of the federal government over Indian affairs. The author of the act was Charles Curtis, now a Congressman. Curtis believed that the Indians should be assimilated and he supported the break-up of tribal governments and the [[Dawes Act|allotment]] of tribal lands to their members. In 1902, at Curtis's urging, Congress abolished the Kaw tribal government and reservation and divided tribal lands among members. Each of 247 Kaw tribal members received {{convert|405|acre|km2|1}}, of which {{convert|160|acre|km2|1}} were for a personal homestead. Curtis and his son and two daughters thus received {{convert|1620|acre|km2}} of land.<ref>Finney, Frank F. "The Kay Indians and their Indian Territory Agency." ''Chronicles of Oklahoma''. Vol. 35. No. 4, 1957, 416-422</ref> Most Kaws sold or lost their land. By 1945, only 13 percent of the land of the former Kaw Reservation was owned by Kaws.<ref>Chapman, Berlin B. "Charles Curtis and the Kaw Reservation." ''Kansas Historical Quarterly.''Vol XV, No. 4. Nov 1947, p. 351</ref> Much former Kaw land was inundated by the creation of [[Kaw Lake]] in the 1960s, including their Council House and cemetery at Washunga which was moved to [[Newkirk, Oklahoma]].

After the death of Washunga in 1908, the Kaw people had no formal organization for many years. In 1922, Washunga's adopted daughter [[Lucy Tayiah Eads]] (Little Deer) was elected principal chief along with a council of eight members,<ref name="clark184">{{cite book |last1=Clark |first1=Blue |title=Indian Tribes of Oklahoma |date=2020 |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |location=Norman |isbn=9780806167626 |page=184 |edition=2nd |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EsXZDwAAQBAJ |access-date=11 February 2024}}</ref> and was the first and only female chief, but in 1928 the government agency to the Kaw was abolished and the buildings sold.<ref>Finney, p. 423</ref> Thereafter, the Kaw had no recognized government until federal recognition and reorganization of the tribe in 1959. The last Chief of the Kaw, Ernest Emmett Thompson, was elected in 1934.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kawnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Timeline.pdf|title=Accessed Nov 25, 2017. Douglas, Crystal. ''A timeline history of the Kaw Nation'', Kaw City: Kanza Museum|access-date=November 25, 2017|archive-date=October 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201018193907/http://www.kawnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Timeline.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> According to Dorothy Roberts full-blooded Kaw women were subject to sterilization by the Indian Health Service in the 1970s.<ref>[https://truthout.org/articles/the-last-time-the-us-wanted-a-wall-70000-people-were-sterilized/ Accessed Feb 15, 2019. ''Truthout: The last time the US wanted a wall 70,000 were sterilized.''] ''As Dorothy Roberts notes in Killing the Black Body: In four Indian Health Service hospitals alone, doctors performed more than 3,000 sterilizations without adequate consent between 1973 and 1976. For small Indian tribes, this policy was literally genocidal. One physician reported that: all the pureblood women of the Kaw tribe of Oklahoma have now been sterilized. At the end of the generation the tribe will cease to exist.''</ref> In 1990, the Kaw ratified a new tribal constitution and created a tribal court in 1992. In 2000, the tribe purchased lands on their pre-1873 reservation near [[Council Grove, Kansas]] to create a park commemorating their history in Kansas named the Allegawaho Memorial Heritage Park.

The last fluent speaker of the [[Kansa language]], Walter Kekahbah, died in 1983. As of 2012, the Kaw Nation offers online language learning for Kansa second language speakers.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ranney |first=Dave |date=August 1, 2005 |title=Researchers try to preserve Indian languages |url=https://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/aug/01/researchers_try_preserve_indian_languages/ |access-date=2022-05-21 |work=LJWorld.com |publisher=Lawrence Journal World |language=en-US}}</ref>

The last full-blood Kaw, William Mehojah, died in 2000.<ref>OK/IT GenWeb. [http://www.okgenweb.org/~itkaw/kawobit.html "The Kansas/Kanza/Kaw Nation."] Accessed 30 Nov 2011</ref>

== Notable people ==
* Allegawaho ({{circa|1820}} – {{circa|1897}}), Kaw Chief, 1867–1873. Allegawaho Heritage Memorial Park in [[Council Grove, Kansas]] is named after him.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/allegawaho/19397|title=Allegawaho - Kansapedia - Kansas Historical Society|website=www.kshs.org|access-date=2019-02-09}}</ref>
*[[Charles Curtis]], the only Native American to be elected [[Vice President of the United States]] (under [[Herbert Hoover]] (1929–1933)). His Congressional career was perhaps even more consequential than his term as vice president. Curtis served long terms in both the House and Senate, where he served as Minority Whip and Majority Leader respectively, reflecting his ability to manage legislation and build agreements. Curtis's mother Ellen Pappan Curtis was one-quarter each of Kaw, [[Osage Nation|Osage]], [[Potawatomi]] and [[French Americans|French]] ancestry; Curtis was enrolled as Kaw.<ref name="senate.gov">{{Cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/VP_Charles_Curtis.htm|title= Charles Curtis, ''U.S. Senate: Art & History'', US Senate.gov, reprinted from ''Vice Presidents of the United States, 1789–1993'', Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1997, accessed 10 Aug 208}}</ref>
* [[Lucy Tayiah Eads]] (Kaw) b. 1888, adopted daughter of Washunga. Elected Chief of Kaw in 1920s and attempted to get federal recognition for the tribe.
* [[Joseph James and Joseph James, Jr.]] (Joe Jim or Jojim), 19th century interpreters and guides.
*William A. Mehojah, the last Kaw full blood, died on April 23, 2000. The Allegawaho Memorial Heritage Park (AMHP) was dedicated in his name on June 19, 2005, near [[Council Grove, Kansas]].
*[[Jim Pepper]], the U.S. jazz saxophonist, singer, and composer, was of both Kaw and [[Creek people|Creek]] ancestry.
* Washunga, principal chief of the Kaw from 1873 until his death in 1908. [[Washunga, Oklahoma]] was named for him.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/washungah/18388|title=Washungah - Kansapedia - Kansas Historical Society|website=www.kshs.org|access-date=2019-02-09}}</ref>
*[[White Plume|White Plume, also known as Monchousia]], Kaw Chief who visited President [[James Monroe|Monroe]] in 1822 in Washington D.C.
* Mark Branch, two-time NCAA-champion wrestler and University of Wyoming wrestling coach (2008–present). Branch won NCAA championships in the 167-pound weight class in 1994 and 1997 and placed second in 1995 and 1996. Branch won four straight Western Wrestling Conference titles as the coach of Wyoming. He has been named WWC Coach of the Year three times.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gowyo.com/sports/m-wrestl/mtt/branch_mark00.html |title=Mark Branch |access-date=2013-03-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130228093807/http://www.gowyo.com/sports/m-wrestl/mtt/branch_mark00.html |archive-date=2013-02-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Chris Pappan]], [[ledger art|ledger artist]].

== See also ==
*[[Kaw Mission]]
*[[Manhattan, Kansas]]

==References==
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== External links ==
{{Commons category|Kaw tribe}}
{{AmCyc Poster|Kansas (tribe)|Kaw people}}
*[https://kawnation.com/ Kaw Nation], official website
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060708065032/http://www.kshs.org/places/kawmission/reconnectionshistoriccouncilgrove22.htm ''Al-le-ga-wa-ho'' Memorial]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20041017075759/http://www.rootsweb.com/~itkaw/KanzaNation.html Rootsweb Kaw article.]
*[http://www.kawnation.com/langhome.html WebKanza: The Online Home of the Kanza Language] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140522140605/http://www.kawnation.com/langhome.html |date=2014-05-22 }}

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