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MONUMENTS TO HISTORICAL INDIAN CHIEFS.

 

BY EDWARD LIVINGSTON TAYLOR.

 

[This is the second contribution of Mr. Taylor upon the subject. The

first will be found on page 1, Volume IX, O. A. and H. Society Pub-

lication.-E. 0. R.]

In the July number of the Archaeological and Historical

Quarterly for the year 1900 I gave some account of the history

of the monuments that have been erected by white men to com-

memorate the memories of noted men of the Indian or Red

Race. At that time I had knowledge of but four of such mon-

uments. First, in order of time, was that erected to Chief Keokuk,

at Keokuk, Iowa. The next was that of Leatherlips, near Co-

lumbus, Ohio. The third, was that of Red Jacket, at Buffalo,

New York; and the fourth, was that of Chief Cornstalk, at Point

Pleasant, West Virginia.

Soon after that article was published, I learned of three

monuments which had been omitted and more recently of one

that is proposed and almost surely will be erected. The omitted

ones were that of Chiefs Uncas and Miantonomoh at and near

the town of Norwich, State of Connecticut, and that of Chief

Sealth (Seattle) at Fort Madison on Puget Sound, near the

town of Seattle, in the State of Washington.

The proposed monument is that for Leopold and Simon Po-

Kagon, father and son, who were the last and best known chiefs

of the Pottawattamie tribe. Simon died at Allegan, in the state