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at various times in Jasper County on the Skunk River, in Marion County, in the valley of the Des Moines and later near old Fort Des Moines. he was reluctant to give up his Iowa home and remove to the Kansas reservation. Monroe County was, when first organized, named Kishkekosh, but it was afterward changed by act of the Legislature.

Appanoose, which signifies “A chief when a child,” presided over a band of Sacs. Little is known of his early life, but during the Black Hawk war he belonged to the peace party. He was tall, straight as an arrow, finely formed and intelligent. After the removal of the tribes to the Des Moines Valley the village over which he presided stood near where Ottumwa has been built. Appanoose was one of the chiefs who accompanied Keokuk to Washington in 1837. At Boston he made a speech which made him famous. He had four wives and lived a very quiet life, seldom going far from his village. The exact date of his death is not known.

Taimah, “The man who makes the rocks tremble,” was a Fox chief. In 1820 his village stood on the Flint Hills, where Burlington was built. It was called Shock-o-con. Tiamah was the head of a secret society of Indians noted for their courage and good character. Women of the best class were eligible to membership. It was known by the name of “Great Medicine,” and its secrets were never divulged. Taimah was one of the chiefs who went to Washington in 1824 and signed the treaty made at that time. Tama County was named in honor of this chief.

THE MUSQUAKIES

These are a remnant of the Pottawattamies and Foxes who returned from the Kansas reservation in about 1850, and stopped on the Iowa River to hunt and fish. They were so attached to Iowa that they persisted in staying in the State that had so long been their home.