THE RED MEN OF IOWA.

When the Indians, in accordance with treaty stipulations, yielded to the whites, May 1st, 1843, possession of the country below Red Rock, Kishkekosh for some time had his village or encampment on Skunk River, in Jasper county. It was during his encampment here that, in company with some prominent members of his tribe, he made a friendly visit to the house of Mr. G. H. Mikesell, at Red Rock. On that occasion their hospitable white friend spread before his red guests a bountiful feast. The party consisted of Kishkekosh, his wife and mother; Wykoma, son of Wapello, and his two wives; Mashawapetino and his wife, together with a number of children. The wife of Kishkekosh was a woman of preposessing appearance. The two wives of Wykoma were sisters, under medium size, but pretty. All were dressed in becoming style.

At one time, as related in Donnel's "Pioneers of Marion County," Mr. Mikesell took occasion to lecture Kishkekosh on the injustice of the practice among the Indians of allowing women to do all the hard work and drudgery. Kishkekosh, with characteristic good sense, admitted the force of the argument, and promised to institute a reform among his own people. It is said that he did set about the work at once, and exemplified his earnestness by taking hold himself.

From 1843 until the fall of 1845, Kishkekosh and his band occupied several different encampments on Skunk River, in Jasper county, on the Des Moines, in Marion county, and in the vicinity of Fort Des Moines, to which place the Indian agency had been removed. When the