The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-26
CLUB IS SITUATED
] ON HISTORIC SPOT
keokuk Country Clubs Grounds Were
Once Scene Of Combat Be-
tween Whites and
Party Of Indians.
THIS SUGGESTS NAME
May Name place Moanahonsa After
Redskin Brave Who Had
Lively Career in
Iowa.
THIS SUGGESTS NAME

Members of the Country club ana
others will be interested to know tnat
the spot VIII ere the club house stands
was the scene OF thrilling incident
/ in the life OF the Indian chief Moana-
honga. The story is told in book
owned by Mrs. Augusta Kilbonrne,
published in 1887 by E. G. Bid'dle OF
Philadelphia. The book contains
history OF many Iowa chiefs, very
| handsomely illustrat ed by water color
pictures. The pages of the book are
21h by 1914 inches and are beautiiul
examples of the printers art. done on
heavy paper with wide margins.
/ In suggesting names for the new
! club house. some Of the members who
are interested in preserving Indian
history suggested the name Moana-
honga This is the story:
/ Moanahonga, which means, Great
Walker was an Iowa brave (the ola
book spells it 'Ioway"O, who earned
his title by being able to endure long
marches without fatigue wnen on the
war path He was OF morose cls-
position, owing to the fact that he
was of obscure parentage, which Kept
him from receiving the honor to
which his deeds Of bravery and skill
entitled him. Above all things else
he wished to be chief. He always
/ avoided those in command because he
did not like to be subordinate to any
one. :.
This brave was one of party leo
nv General Clark to Washington IN
! 1924. at which time he and Mahaska
| coded all their lands in Missouri,
amounting to millions of acres for
| the sum of $500 annually for ten years
and some other minor consid erations.
He did not r=alize the import OF the
transaction and returning to MS
home found it overrun with whites
who now possessed the land covering
the homes OF his ancestors He was
greatly affected when he found what
h. had unwittingly done and In 1879
determined to go to st. Louis to see
General Clark to seek to have the
treaty set aside. Enroute he met some
| white m IN who gave him whiskey and
stole the blankets and possessions ~
all the party. One Indian, enrageo
| at the robbery, shot hog belonging
to a white settler. The news was
spread abroad that the Indians ware
DESTROYING the property Of the whites
and accordingly they we're driven over
the Missouri border into Iowa.
There they went into camp and
yer, again pursued and shot at by
the whites. and furious fight ensued'
in which the Indians were victorious.
TO insure peace. the agent OF the
Iowa Indians, General Hughes, gave
eleven braves as hostages who were
taken by General Leavenworth TO 81.
Louis.
Mainline Moanahonga, together with
Taimah had camped on the Polecat
river near FIT. Madison. Here they
were overtaken by the whites who
had been guided by band of Sacs
and Foxes. Moanahonga, realizing
that he was overpowered surrender.
. ed and was marched to point OF
land near the Des Moines rapids He
i. ordered his squaws to return and
4. thew ascended the hill which rises
from the margin of the river. From
, the detailed description, this is pre-
sumably the rise of land near the
: club house. The agent ct once under
!, stood that the Indians intended to
: murder him and his men. Just at
this moment fl set OF boats filled
with United States troops came down
the river and blood she'd was avoided.
A few years later Moanahonga and
Sioux chief met in conflict and both
, were killed