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THE RED MEN OF IOWA.

CHAPTER XXIII.

A LINGERING REMNANT.

THOUSANDS of people in Iowa to-day regard the Indian as having entirely passed from its borders, but this is not literally true. In one of the best settled counties of central Iowa may still be found the home of a forlorn and lingering band, numbering three hundred and fifty souls, including men, women and children. They are a remnant of the Sacs and Foxes (chiefly the latter), but are familiarly known to us now as "Musquakies," and by this name we shall here designate them. They own and occupy in Tama county nearly seven hundred acres of valuable land, situated in the valley of Iowa River, which was purchased with their own money at different times, as shown by the record of deeds in the county. These lands are taxed by the State as other lands, and are held in trust by the gov-