# White Feather Spring

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{{Short description|Historic site in Kansas, U.S.}}
{{Use American English|date=July 2025}}
{{NRIS-only|date=January 2024}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}
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| image        = White Feather Spring marker for Shawnee Prophet 2023.jpg
| caption      = The marker is near White Feather Spring.
| location     = 3818 Ruby Avenue, [Kansas City, Kansas](/source/Kansas_City%2C_Kansas)
| coordinates  = {{coord|39|4|18.16|N|94|40|24.9|W|display=inline,title}}
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| added        = {{date|August 27, 1975}}
| refnum       = 75000728<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2007a}}</ref>
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The '''White Feather Spring''' is in the [Argentine](/source/Argentine%2C_Kansas) community of [Kansas City, Kansas](/source/Kansas_City%2C_Kansas). It is on [private property](/source/private_property). White Feather Spring is named after Susan White Feather, the first property owner after the Treaty of 1854 [land parcel](/source/land_parcel)ing.

==History==
[[File:Shawnee Prophet, Tenskwatawa.jpg|thumb|The "Shawnee Prophet", [Tenskwatawa](/source/Tenskwatawa), was younger brother to [Tecumseh](/source/Tecumseh).]]
[[File:Ten-sqúat-a-way.jpg|thumb|''Ten-sqúat-a-way'' was painted by [George Catlan](/source/George_Catlin).]]
thumb|Tenskwatawa
In 1826, [Tenskwatawa](/source/Tenskwatawa) established a village at a site in modern Kansas City, Kansas. Tensquatawa, known as the Shawnee Prophet, was the younger brother of the [Shawnee](/source/Shawnee) [war chief](/source/Tribal_chief), [Tecumseh](/source/Tecumseh). Tensquatawa built Prophetstown near the present South 26th Street and Woodend Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas. He later moved from there to White Feather Spring. He died here in November 1836. It is located in the [Argentine](/source/Argentine%2C_Kansas) community of Kansas City, Kansas.

The grave of the Prophet, about 75-100 yards to the northwest of his home, was not marked for around sixty years. An editor of the ''[Kansas City Sun](/source/Kansas_City_Sun)'', E. F. Heisler, in 1897 went to the [Indian Territory](/source/Indian_Territory) and got [Charles Bluejacket](/source/Charles_Bluejacket), who had been present at the Prophet's burial when he was 20 years old, to locate the grave. He located the [natural spring](/source/natural_spring), where the Prophet's home was and told those present where the Prophet's grave was. A temporary marker was placed but later removed. No permanent marker was installed and the exact grave location is not known.

==References==
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{{Registered Historic Places}}

Category:Natural features on the National Register of Historic Places in Kansas
Category:History of Kansas City, Kansas
Category:Geography of Wyandotte County, Kansas
Category:Geography of Kansas City, Kansas
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Kansas City, Kansas
Category:Springs of Kansas
Category:Shawnee history
Category:Native American history of Kansas

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