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THE RED MEN OF IOWA.

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CHAPTER XV.

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MINOR SAC AND FOX CHIEFS AND BRAVES.

Pashepaho -- Wapello -- Appanoose -- Poweshiek --Taimah -- Wishecomaque -- Kishkekosh -- Wabokieshiek -- Nepope -- Quashquame -- Peahmuska -- Wapashashiek -- Pasishamone -- List of Names of Sac and Fox Chiefs and braves.

PASH-E-PA-HO.

THIS personage, whose name signifes The Stabber, perhaps should not be rated as one of the minor chiefs, for he was at the time of the St. Louis treaty of 1804, the head chief of the Sac tribe. He was even then well advanced in years, and as the greater portion of his career had passed before the Sacs and Foxes came into very intimate relations with the whites, but comparatively little is known of him. He was one of the five representatives of his nation who negotiated the treaty of 1804 with William Henry Harrison, and which was so bitterly complained of by Black Hawk. We have but very meager details of his deeds as a warrior, but it is very probable that he stood high among his people in that respect. It was under his leadership that the Iowas were subjugated in the great decisive battle on the Des Moines in the early part of the present century, as related in a former chapter. Soon after the establishment of Fort Madison, Pashe-

Portrait of PASH-E-PO-HO, a Sac Chief.
(This illustration appears in the text between pages 248 and 249.)

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