The Kansa Indians: A History of the Wind People, 1673-1873 Volume 114 - Paperbackby William E. Unrau (Author), R. David Edmunds (Foreword by) After their first contacts with whites in the seventeenth century, the Kansa Indians began migrating from the eastern United States to what is now eastern Kansas, by way of the Missouri Valley. Settling in villages mostly along the Kansas River, they led a semi sedentary life, raising corn and a few vegetables and hunting buffalo in the spring and fall. It was an idyllic existence until bad,