In 1850, workers from the Shawnee Methodist Mission near Kansas City traveled 110 miles on the Santa Fe Trail to build a mission and boarding school for Kaw (Kansa) Indian boys, and the school opened in 1851 with funding from the U.S. government before closing in 1854 because the government reported that operating costs were too high. The school averaged about thirty pupils, all boys, who were taught spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetic, received no instruction in trades, and worked on the farm. This land was once part of Kaw and Osage homelands, and in the early 1800s the Kaws' domain extended well beyond today's state borders, but by 1848 the federal government had forced the Kaw people onto a twenty-mile-square reservation surrounding Council Grove, where about 1,000 people lived in three nearby villages while struggling with disease and starvation. In 1873, the remaining 600 Kaws were relocated to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma. In 1997, the Kaw Nation, headquartered in Kaw City, Oklahoma, had 2,300 members and was stronger economically, politically, and socially than at any other time since the days of the Santa Fe Trail. The State of Kansas was named for the Kaw, or Kansa, tribe.