Image taken from page 311 of "Upper Mississipi: or, Historical Sketches of the Mound-Builders, the Indian tribes from 1600 AD to the present time" by George Gale, 1867. Keokuk (1767 - 1848) was a chief of the Sauk tribe noted for his policy of cooperation with the U.S. government which led to conflict with Black Hawk, who led part of their band into the Black Hawk War. He had not opposed the advance of the white men, and Keokuk and his followers eventually moved west of the Mississippi River. Although a four hundred square mile strip surrounding his village was exempted from the 1832 Black Hawk Purchase, he and his people were eventually moved further, to a reservation in Kansas, where Keokuk died in 1848. In 1883 his remains were moved back to the town named after him and a monument by Nellie Walker erected there in 1913. This image has been color enhanced.