Identifier: iowafirstfreesta00salt (find matches)
Title: Iowa, the first free state in the Louisiana purchase : from its discovery to the admission of the state into the Union, 1673-1846
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Salter, William, 1821-1910
Subjects: Iowa -- History Mississippi River Valley -- History
Publisher: Chicago : A.C. McClurg
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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s was taken to Washington, D. C, in1824, and treaties were made with them for thecession of those lands to the United States.The famous Sac chiefs, Pash-e-pa-ho and Keo-kuk, the Fox chief, Tama, and the Iowa chief,Mahaska, were in the deputation. Flying Pig-eon, one of Mahaskas wives, accompanied him.He had refused her request to go, but she fol-lowed him down the Des Moines River, andwith tomahawk in hand claimed her right tokeep him company. He yielded to her impor-tunity. A woman of handsome presence andnoble bearing, she was feted at the WhiteHouse as an Iowa princess, and her portraitpainted for the Indian Gallery. After the ces-sion took effect, January i, 1826, those tribeswere confined to their lands in what is nowIowa, save that Black Hawk and his band, whowere known as the Sacs of Rock River, re-mained east of the Mississippi. The treaty withthe Sacs and Foxes also provided that thesmall tract of land lying between the rivers DesMoines and Mississippi, and the section of the
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Mahaska THENEW YOF^K (.public library ^s^or. Lenox and Tilden^Foj Hrtions- in the Louisiana Purchase 129 State boundary line between the Mississippiand the Des Moines, is intended for the use ofthe half-breeds belonging to those nations ; —•according to the sentiment in the Indian mindthat care and protection were due to any whoinherited their blood. In those years the Sacs and Foxes kept uptheir hereditary war with the Sioux. In orderto promote peace and establish boundariesbetween them as well as between all thetribes from the lakes to the Missouri River,invitations were sent out to the chiefs andhead men of those tribes to assemble atPrairie du Chien in the summer of 1825, andin a spirit of mutual conciliation accomplishthose objects. It was a great assemblage. EvaEmery Dye describes it in The Conquest—•the True Story of Lewis and Clark, withgraphic pen: Prairie du Chien was alive with excitement.Governor Cass of Michigan was already there. Notonly the village, but the enti

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