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See biography by M. Lockwood (1943).
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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American Sauk leader (1790-1848)

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. The town of Keokuk, Iowa, where he is buried, is named for him.
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.
Iowa: A Guide to the Hawkeye State, Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Projectof the Works Progress Administration for the State of Iowa, The Viking Press, New York, 1938
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