jan 1, 1845 - Sauk & Meskwaki
removed from Iowa
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Sauk and Meskwaki required to be out of eastern Iowa by 1843, and out of western Iowa by 1845:
The New Purchase of 1842 reached westward from the northwest corner of the newly established Washington County, and required that all Sauk and Meskwaki be out of eastern Iowa by 1843 and out of Iowa entirely by 1845. This treaty was signed by Keokuk, Powesheik, and a number of other Sauk and Meskwaki chiefs favored by the United States. Just as with the Treaty of 1804 that ceded all land east of the Mississippi, all of the land cessions in eastern Iowa were hugely unpopular among many of the Sauk and Meskwaki people. In the Annals of Iowa, the 19th century historian Uriah Briggs told of a Meskwaki medicine man performing rituals of atonement for selling the tribal land to the American settlers. At a settlement 35 miles southwest of here, Briggs witnessed the emotional distress of the people whose time had come to leave for the reservations assigned to them in Kansas: “a solemn and impressive silence pervaded the camp, and the faces of many of their stoutest men were bathed in tears.”
Added to timeline:
Crooked Creek: A History of the Land and the People
Crooked Creek Christian Camp
Washington, Iowa
2017
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