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Keokuk ('əkək), c.1780-1848, Native American, chief of the Sac and Fox, b. near present-day Rock Island, Ill. When Black Hawk supported the British in the War of 1812, Keokuk refused to join him, thereby gaining recognition and support from the U.S. government. After Black Hawk's defeat in 1832, Keokuk's people were given a large tract of land in SE Iowa. Keokuk visited Washington D.C., in 1833 and 1837. His grave and a statue of him are at Keokuk, Iowa.

Bibliography

See biography by M. Lockwood (1943).

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American Sauk leader who aided the United States in the Black Hawk War (1832) and negotiated peace between his people and the Sioux (1837).


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Meaning #1: American Sauk leader (1790-1848)


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Keokuk

Keokuk (1767–1848) was a chief of the Sauk or Sac tribe in central North America noted for his policy of cooperation with the U.S. government which led to conflict with Black Hawk, who led part of their band into the Black Hawk War.[1] Keokuk County, Iowa and the town of Keokuk, Iowa, where he is buried, are named for him.

In 1829 Caleb Atwater met Keokuk:

Keeokuk, the principal warrior of the Sauks, is a shrewd politic man as well as a brave one and he possesses great weight of character in their national councils. He is a high minded, honorable man and never begs of the whites. While ascending the Mississippi to join us at the head of his brave troops, he met, arrested, and brought along with him to Fort Crawford two United States soldiers who were deserting from the garrison when he met them. I informed him that for this act he was entitled to a bounty in money, to which he proudly replied that he acted from motives of friendship towards the United States and would accept no money for it.[2]

Chief Keokuk had not opposed the advance of the white men, and Keokuk and his followers eventually moved west of the Mississippi River. Although a four hundred square mile strip surrounding his village was exempted from the 1832 Black Hawk Purchase, he and his people were eventually moved further, to a reservation in Kansas, where Keokuk died in 1848. In 1883 his remains were moved back to the town named after him and a monument by Nellie Walker erected there in 1913.

The Chief Keokuk Statue stands today in Rand Park, Keokuk, Iowa. The Keokuk chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution was instrumental in erecting the statue. Lorene Curtis Diver, niece of Major General Samuel Ryan Curtis, was one of eight women on the DAR committee.[3]

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Chief Keokuk gallery

References

  • Iowa: A Guide to the Hawkeye State, Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Iowa, The Viking Press, New York, 1938
  • "Goodbye My kangaroo Lady" by Raymond E. Garrison, Hamilton, IL: Hamilton Press,1962.

Notes

  1. ^ http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/gal/mh-keokuk.html
  2. ^ Caleb Atwater (1831) Remarks made on a tour to Prairie du Chien: thence to Washington City, in 1829. p. 73. Isaac Whiting, Columbus.
  3. ^ "Goodbye My Keokuk Lady" by Raymond E. Garrison, p. 88

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