Below are the highlights of chapter 9 vol 1 History of Iowa. You can see the whole chapter on the Iowa History Site. CHAPTER IX The Pottawattamie Indians - Allies of the British in the Wars of the Revolution and 1812 - Treaties of 1816, 1825, 1829 and 1835 - Colonel Peter Sarpy - The Old Block House - Pottawattamies Move to Kansas in 1846 - The Dakota Indians - Their Country in Early Times - The Sioux in the Seventeenth Century - Come to Iowa in 1804 - Give names to Iowa Lakes - The Chief Waneta - Battle of the Raccoon River - Battle in Kossuth County Between Sioux and Musquakies - Sioux Massacres in 1857 and 1862 - Removal to Indian Territory - Fort Established at Raccoon Forks Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/