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51. 



PAII-QUE-SAH-AH, or LITTLE TECUMSEH. 



(Painted 1843.) 



A son of Teeumseh. He has none of the extraordinary traits of 

 character for which his sire was celebrated, and is of very little note 

 in his tribe; he was in the battle in which his father fell. 



SACS AND FOXES. 



52. 



KEOKUK.— HEAD CHIEF. 



(Painted May, 1846.) 



"The former residence of the Sacs was on the banks of the St. 

 Lawrence, where they were driven by the Six Nations, with whom 

 they carried on a long and bloody war. As they retired toward the 

 west, they became embroiled with the Wyandots, and were driven , 

 farther and farther along the shores of the lakes, until they found a 

 temporary resting-place at Green Bay. 



"Here they were joined by the Musquakees, (Foxes,) who, having 

 been so reduced by war as to be unable to maintain themselves as a 

 separate people, sought refuge among their kindred. They subse- 

 quently removed to Illinois on Rock River ; where, surrounded by 

 the choicest beauties of nature, it would seem that a taste for the 

 picturesque, a sense of the enjoyment of home and comfort, and an 

 ardent love of country would have been implanted and fostered. But 

 we find no such results — and the Sacs of Illinois presented the same 

 character half a century ago which they now exhibit. They are 

 savages as little ameliorated by place or circumstance as the Coman- 

 ches — or other of the wild Prairie tribes. 



" In early life he distinguished himself by killing a Sioux warriot 



