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Reservation—The Winnebagoes, a Dakota Tribe—Fight with the British in the War of 1812—Occupy the “Neutral Lands” in Iowa—Winneshiek and Waukon-Decorah—Winnebago Characteristics
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87-98
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The Pottawattamie Indians—Allies of the British in the Wars of the Revolution and 1812—Treaties of 1816, 1825, 1829 and 1835—Colonel Peter Sarpy—The Old Block House—Pottawattamies Move to Kansas in 1846—The Dakota Indians—Their Country in Early Times—The Sioux in the Seventeenth Century—Come to Iowa in 1804—Give names to Iowa Lakes—The Chief Waneta—Battle of the Raccoon River—Battle in Kossuth County Between Sioux and Musquakies—Sioux Massacres in 1857 and 1862—Removal to Indian Territory—Fort Established at Raccoon Forks
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First White Settlements in Iowa—Early Discoveries of Lead Ore—Julien Dubuque’s Colony in 1788—His Grant of Mineral Lands from Fox Indians—Opens Trade in St. Louis—Secures a Grant from the Spanish Governor—Death of Dubuque in 1810—His Colony Driven Out by the Indians—Litigation Over the Title—Schoolcraft Visits the Mines in 1820—Grant to Basil Giard in 1795—Settlement by Louis Honore Tesson in 1799—First Orchard in Iowa—American Rule in Louisiana—Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5—Passes Along the Western Boundary of Iowa—Description of that Region
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109-124
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Exploring Expedition of Zebulon M. Pike in 1805—Examines the Eastern Boundary of Iowa—Conference with Julien Dubuque—Site Selected for a Fort—Explores the Upper Mississippi Valley—Missionaries and Fur Traders—Benton’s Opinion of the Prairies in 1819—First Newspaper West of the Mississippi River—The Burr Conspiracy of 1806—First Fort on Iowa Soil—Encroachment on Indian Lands—Fort Attacked by Sacs and Foxes and Destroyed—Fort Armstrong
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