Biography of chickasaw county iowa settlers

THE INDIANS OF CHICKASAW COUNTY, IOWA

    Volumes have been written about the North American Indians - - their legends,  traditions and customs - - and the subject is practically inexhaustible.  In a history such as this it is not the design to enter into any extended account of the entire Indian race,  but to notice only those tribes whose history is intimately interwoven with the territory now comprising the State of Iowa, and especially the part of where the counties of Chickasaw and Howard are located.  These tribes were the Iowa,  Sac,  Fox,  Sioux,  Winnebago  and Potawatomi.

IOWA

  Although the Iowa Indians were not the most numerous or the greatest importance historically,  they are first mentioned because it was this tribe that gave the Hawkeye State its name,  and they were probably the first Indians to establish themselves in the Iowa  counties of Chickasaw and Howard,  included in