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One of the residents of the Kaw reservation
at the time of the Cheyenne Raid was eight-year- old Charles
Curtis, who had been living with his maternal grandmother on the
Council Grove reservation since 1866. Following this attack,
Charles, who was one-eighth Kaw, made a journey to Topeka with
a group of Kaw adults. Charles Curtis never returned to live
with the Kaws, but went to establish a very successful
political career. He held the office of U.S. Senator from Kansas
for many years and was elected vice-president of the United
States in 1928, serving in the administration of Herbert Hoover
from 1929 to 1933.
Charles
Curtis was the first person born west of
the Mississippi River to be elected vice-president and the only
person of Indian descent to hold the nation’s second highest
office.
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