MOUNDS NEAR lOWAVILLE. 



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The race course coiivsisted of three parallel hard-beateu tracks nearly a 

 mile in length, where the greater portion of the Iowa warriors were 

 engaged in sport when surprised by Black Hawk and a large portion 

 of them slaughtered, in 1830. After Black Hawk and his warriors had 

 departed with their plunder the remaining lowas returned and buried 



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Fiti. 53. — Diagram of Indian battle grouuii, Wapello county, Iowa, 



their dead in little mounds of sod and earth from 2 to 4 feet high at 

 the point indicated in the diagram. 



After the Black Hawk war the remnant of the lowas, by a treaty, 

 formally ceded their rights in this valley to the Sacs and Foxes. Here 

 this noted chief was buried, in accordance with his dying request, in 

 a full military suit given him by President Jackson, together with the 

 various memorials received by him from the whites, and the trophies 



