Kansas-Nebraska Bill: effect upon Indian interests, 29, 35; settlers demand Indians to vacate territory covered by, 36; Seward's speech on, 58-59 Kansas Territory: first districting illegally included Indian lands, 35; free-state settlers charge Buchanan government with bad faith, 37 Kappler, C. J: work cited, 20, _footnote_, 34, _footnote_, 49, _footnote_, 50, _footnote_, 52, _footnote_ Kaskaskias: from Illinois, 19 Keitt, Lawrence M: 127, 129 Kennedy, John C: 211, _footnote_ Kickapoos: from Indiana, 19; tarry in Missouri, 19, _footnote_; denominationalism among, 37, _footnote_; refugees, 56, _footnote_; Leeper to communicate with, in name of Albert Pike, 181, _footnote_; Pike hopes to meet, 189, _footnote_ Kile, William: 261, _footnote_, 274 Kingsbury, Rev. Cyrus: 40, and _footnote_, 43, _footnote_, 76 Kingsbury Jr., Cyrus: 79 Kiowas: 52; Texans reported tampering with, 210, _footnote_; messengers from, 309; talk for, 320; treaty with, to be effected, 323, 331; delegation of, 324; Big-head, chief of, 342; Lone Wolf, chief of, 350; E-sa-sem-mus, chief of, 350; annual festival of, 351; treaty with, 354 Knights of Golden Circle: probable influence with Arkansas Legislature, 68, _footnote_; evidence of activity among Indians, 68; halfbreeds belong to, 86, _footnote_ Koonsha Female Seminary: 40, _footnote_ Lands: plot to dispossess Indian of, 18; pledged by U. S. government as Indian possession in perpetuity, 18, 28; of Cherokees extended north of thirty-seventh parallel, 21; of Indians coveted by Forty-niners, 28; of Indians in Kansas excluded from local governmental control, 35; allotment in severalty proposed to Creeks, Choctaws and Chickasaws, 58; violation of treaties to cost Indians their, 86, _footnote_; property rights of Indians guaranteed by Confederacy, 161 _et seq._; Indians to have right to dispose of by will, 172; Cherokee halfbreeds fear designs upon Indian, 216 Lane, James H: 125, 229, 231, _footnote_, 233, 242, 251 and _footnote_, 265, 270, 276, 278 Lane, W. P: 357 Laughinghouse, G. W: 120 Leased District: 52 and _footnote_, 54, 56, 57, _footnote_, 63, 67, 96, 179, 199, 297, 340, 349 Lee, Robert E: 88, _footnote_, 98, _footnote_, 99 Lee, S. Orlando: letter, 75-79, 197, _footnote_ Leeper, Matthew: 57 and _footnote_, 82 and _footnote_, 96, 98 and _footnote_, 99, 180, _footnote_, 199, _footnote_, 303, 304-307, 311, 315-319; removal of, asked for by Rector, 323; death of, 329, _footnote_; charges against, 333 _Leeper Papers_: cited, 57, _footnote_, 99, _footnote_, 102, _footnote_, 181, _footnote_, 186, _footnote_, 199, _footnote_, 200, _footnote_, 201, _footnote_, 329-357 Lee's Creek: Cherokee school at, 39, _footnote_ Lefontaine, Louis: 208, _footnote_ Leroy: 248, 266