Many are in impeccable condition, and some need love. The park features a statue of Chief Keokuk, who once lived in the area with his people and accepted white settlers until the tribes were ...

IOWA CITY -- Keokuk Mayor Tom Marion feels a spirit in his town this week. It's not Chief Keokuk, whose statue stands in Rand Park. It's not the nine citizens who, as lore goes, in 1834 voted to ...

Chief Keokuk, a chief of the combined Sac and Fox tribes, who failed to support Black Hawk in the Black Hawk War of 1832, has been compared to Gandhi as a peacemaker. Keokuk was a politician in ...

Born on the Tuscarora Reservation near Lewistown, New York, he was the son of Au-Paw-Chee-Kaw-Paw-Qua, a Sauk/Ojibwe who was a daughter of Chief Keokuk, and Jee-Wan-Gah, a Seneca who grew up in the ...

The City of Keokuk is named for Chief Keokuk of the Sauk tribe. There’s also a Keokuk County, about a hundred miles northwest of the City of Keokuk.

Most Sac and Fox had resettled in Iowa by 1830 under the leadership of the moderate Chief Keokuk, who was more of a politician than a warrior. He favored negotiating with the U.S. rather than ...

The Chief Keokuk statue overlooks the Mississippi River in Keokuk, Iowa. (Marion and Rich Patterson/for The Gazette) The dam flooded the once impassible rapids. A lock enabled big boats to ...