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Chetopa is a city in Labette County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 1,125.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_PL_GCTPL2.ST13&prodType=table )〕 Chetopa was named for Chief Chetopah, an Osage Indian chief. Later, the community name was shortened.〔Kansas Place-Names, John Rydjord, University of Oklahoma Press, 1972, p. 435 ISBN 0-8061-0994-7〕 ==History== The community began as an Osage village, named after its chief Chetopah, whose name in the Osage language signifies "four lodges," was an advocate of peace, the leading chief of the Little Osage tribe, and one of the chief counselors of the Osage Nation. 〔(Reminiscences of a trader in the Osage Country, James Edwin Finney written down by Joseph B. Thoburn )〕 In 1847 a trading post to exchange goods with the Osage Nation was established here by Larkin McGhee. By the time of McGhee's arrival there were three other Euro-American families plus two families with a Euro-American husband and a Cherokee wife at Chetopa. There were also many Osage there.〔(transcription from the History of Labette County by Nelson Case )〕 Chetopa was the site of a September 18, 1861 battle between the 6th Kansas Cavalry under the direction of James G. Blunt and pro-slavery raiders led by John Allan Mathews, whose wife was an Osage and was culturally identified with the Osages.〔(Kansas Memory entry on Mathews )〕 The first post office in Chetopa was established in April 1867.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 )〕 In 1880, Postmaster J.M. Cavaness petitioned the removal of the ending “h” in the original spelling to become Chetopa.〔http://www.krwa.net/lifeline/1011/058.pdf〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chetopa, Kansas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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