Sauk Chief Keokuk resigns tribal claims to land east of the Mississippi

Historical Context Note

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.6: Indigenous Writing and Culture of North America - United States.
Vol. editors: Joshua Bartlett (High Point University), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Padraig Kirwan (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University)

Domains

Colonialism and colonisation

Dates

Date of occurrence 1832-09-19

Places

United States (Location)

Cultural Identities

First Nations/Indigenous US-American

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Sauk Chief Keokuk (1767-1848), and his followers, moved west of the Mississippi River as a result of the 1832 Black Hawk Purchase, following defeat by the US army and militia in The Black Hawk War.

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