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| IOWA. |
| FATHER MARQUETTE and
Joliet visited Iowa in 1673 and
passed on. The country belonged
to the huge Province of
Louisiana, claimed and held by
France and ceded to Spain by that
nation in 1763. Given back to
France nearly forty years later,
it was presently ceded by that
power to the United States,
together with all the Mississippi
valley. The inhabitants were
mainly wild Indians--the Iowas
and Pottawatomies in the west,
the Sacs and Foxes in the east,
and the Sioux and Winnebagoes in
the north. |
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first white pioneer of Iowa was
Julien Dubuque, a French-Canadian
trader, who dwelt from 1788 to
1810 among the Indians at the
lead mines, near the city now
bearing his name. In 1830 the
Sioux annihilated a large party
of the Sacs and Foxes (including
ten chiefs) on the Mississippi
River, near Dubuque, and the
people of those tribes fled in
panic from their ancient homes.
Then began the first wave of
immigration, the white miners
crossing at various points and
occupying the deserted villages
and mines. They were ejected by
the United States troops under
Lieut. Jefferson Davis, by order
of Col. Zachary Taylor, who went
into garrison until the formal
cession of the territory by the
Sacs and Foxes. This was made in
1832 to defray the cost of the
Black Hawk war. Statehood was for
several years withheld, because
the Iowans refused to accept the
border line proposed by Congress,
which cut them off from the
Missouri River. Dubuque, the earliest permanent village, was
founded in 1833. |
| ILLUSTRATIONS. |
First
Settlement at Dubuque, 1833;
Massacre by the Sioux; Du-
buque Trading with the Indians,
1788-1810. |
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