About Belton

Indians

Indians
Shawnee Indians lived and owned land four miles west of Belton, just across the Missouri - Kansas border, on what was know as the Black Bob Reservation. Located in the southern part of Johnson County, Kansas, it was deeded to the Shawnees in the Treaty of May 10, 1844. Because of harassment from both sides at the beginning of the Civil War, the Shawnees abandoned their lands and settled in Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. At the end of the war they found their lands in Kansas had been occupied by whites and most Indians had to return to Indian Territory empty-handed.