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CONTENTS
THE IOWAS.
Pages 107 - 125.....Early Accounts of the Iowas--Their Migrations --Clans--Wars with the Sioux and Osages--Sioux Treachery --Manhawgaw--His Assassination--Wachamonya, the Orator--The First Mahaskah--His Wife, Rantchewaime--They Visit Washington --Rantchewaime's Tragic Death--Her Character--Mahaskah as a Warrior--His Assassination--Fate of the Assassins--The Younger Mahaskah--Black Hawk--Fraternal Devotion--Pashepaho--Great Indian Battle on the Des Moines--Subjugation of the Iowas--Treaty with the Iowas--Their Religion and Traditions--Sketches of Chiefs
Pages 126 - 145.....Tribal Emblems--Original Names--Union of the Two Tribes--Conquest of the Illinois Confederacy--Tribal Polity--Social and Domestic Relations--Their Religion--Traditions of the Creation --Pike's Visit--Tribal Clans--Sac and Fox Villages--Fort Armstrong--Col. Lawrence--Gen. Street--Meeting at Prairie du Chien--Bad Faith of the Sioux and Menomonies--Massacre of Foxes--Death of Peahmuska --Retaliation--Sac and Fox Treatment of Prisoners --Amusements --Ceremonies--The Code-duello--Appeasing the Great Spirit--Life for Life--A Scene at Rock Island
Pages 146 - 162.....Early Names of the Tribe--Traditions of its Origin--Hostility toward the Whites--Hoo-choop--Sympathy with Black Hawk's Movement-- Treaties--Agree to Remove to the Neutral Ground--Reluctance to Comply with Treaty--Deterioration of the Tribe--Treaty of 1846--Character and Customs--Traditions
--Superstitions--Winneshiek--Waukon-Decorah--His Influence for Peace with the Whites--His Death--''One-Eyed Decorah" --Chaetar
Pages 163 - 172.....Early History--Concerned in the Massacre at Chicago--Relations with other Tribes--Waubunsee--Metea, the Orator--"Billy Caldwell"--His Death in Iowa--Religion and Traditions --Account of the Creation-- Removal West--Trader's Point --Col. Sarpy--Village on the Nishnabotna--A Pottawattamie Maiden--A Young Trader's Infatuation--Removal from Iowa
Contents, page 12 (Chapters 11, 12, 13)
Contents, page 13 (Chapters 14, 15, 16, 17)
Contents, page 14 (Chapters 18, 19, 20)
Contents, page 15 (Chapters 21, 22, 23, 24)
Contents, page 16 ( Appendix - Pontiac's War, Etc., Chapters 1 and 2)
Contents, page 17 (Appendix - Pontiac's War, Etc., Chapters 3, 4, 5)
Previous Pages:
Introductory Page|
Portrait of MA-KA-TAI-ME-SHE-KIA-KIAH (Black Hawk)|
Title Page|
Page 2
Preface (pages 3 - 6)|
Illustrations (page 7)
Contents, page 9 (Chapters 1, 2)
Contents, page 10 (Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6)
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