264:. In 1832, Walker headed a delegation of five Wyandot to explore their proposed new lands. The report of the Wyandot, written by Walker, was highly unfavorable toward the land they saw and the white people they encountered on the frontier, an "abandoned, dissolute, and wicked class of people," many of whom were "fugitives from justice." The murder of a Wyandot chief and his family finally persuaded the Wyandot that the American government would not protect them in Ohio and, in 1843, 664 Wyandot left Ohio by steamboat for their new home in Kansas. Their new lands, purchased from the
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1854. This opened the territory to white settlement and allowed settlers to determine if slavery would be allowed in their territories. The
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Walker's political efforts had the objective of preventing the
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On July 26, 1853, Walker was elected provisional governor of the territory of
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in the 1850s and 1860s by selling their lands to white settlers, but for most the influx of Whites proved disastrous and they soon moved to
Oklahoma and new lands there. Walker, however, remained in Kansas where he died on February 13, 1874.
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Walker's election as provisional governor was not accepted by the federal government, but it prompted
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territory and benefit from the settlement of Kansas by white settlers. Walker and the others were also promoting Kansas as the route for the proposed transcontinental railroad.
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