Sac and Fox treaty of 1842: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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By 1845 nearly all had left Iowa.<ref name="Cole">Cyrenus Cole, A History of the People of Iowa 141, 176-77 (1921)</ref><ref name="Pickard">J. L. Pickard, ''Iowa Indians, in'' Iowa Historical Lectures 30, 48 (1892)</ref> Similarly, other Native American groups gave up their Iowa land via treaties with the United States. Western Iowa was ceded by a group of tribes including the Missouri, Omaha, and Oto in 1830.<ref name="Harlan"/> The Ioway ceded the last of their Iowa lands in 1838.<ref name="Pickard"/> The Winnebago and Potawatomi, who had only a short time before been removed to Iowa, were yet again removed and had left Iowa by 1848 and 1846, respectively.<ref name="Cole"/> The last remaining group, the Sioux, ceded their last Iowa land via an 1851 treaty with the United States, which they completed in 1852.<ref name="Cole"/><ref name="Pickard"/>

Following the removal of the Native Americans to Kansas, Iowa was admitted into the Union as a state in 1846. Following the end of the transition period in 1846, US settlers were allowed to claim lands in the former Native American territory, like [[Mahaska County, Iowa]] and did so anxiously<ref name="History of Iowa">[[s:Page:History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Volume 3.djvu/486|History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Volume 3]] </ref>.

==See also==

* [[Black Hawk War]]