The whole chapter is on the Iowa History site. STORIES OF IOWA FOR BOYS AND GIRLS CHAPTER XX HOW THE INDIANS LOST IOWA As white settlers began to come to Iowa the Indians again and again were compelled to bid farewell to their native villages and to move to new homes. Even before white settlers were allowed to live in Iowa, the Sauks and Foxes in 1824 gave up a triangular shaped region in what is now Lee County for the half-breeds. But white traders soon gained control of this land. You have already learned how the Sioux and the Sauks and Foxes, in 1830, each gave up a strip of land twenty miles wide in northeastern Iowa to the government to form a neutral area between them. At the same time the Indians in western Iowa gave up their claims to the Missouri slope. Later the Winnebagoes were moved over from Wisconsin into the Neutral Ground, and the Potawatamis with some of their kinsmen, the Ottawas and Chippewas, were brought from Illinois to occupy the government-owned land in southwestern Iowa. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County _http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/_ (http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/) IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: _http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/_ (http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/)