Salvete Omnes,
chief Keeokuk vel Keokuk, who later in life called himself the 'man who has been everywhere,' was a principal leader of the pro-American goverment factions of the formerly Woodland Algonqian Sauk(Sacs) and Meskwaki (Foxes)tribes and a chief antagonist of Black Hawk and his independent faction (the 1832 Black Hawk War and aftermath resolved the conflict within the Sacs & Foxes in Keokuk's favor).
George Catlin visited the notorious chief in his Iowa home, and they met again during the Sauk chief's visit to the East Coast. Catlin drew the chief, his favorite wife and son (who became his successor when the chief died in Kansas 1848).
Also, he painted a famous painting of chief astride a fine warhorse - Keokuk was a note warrior and war leader, and
The photo of the painting comes from the Smithsonian.
We could say that Keokuk and his people did not prosper from pro-government stance in their dealings with the Americans between 1804 and 1840s, finally ending in the so called Indian Territory in 1860s.
They had to fight another fight for their reservations in Kansas and Iowa in the 1950s and 1960s, surviving and winning that last fight for their tribal existence.
Valete
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