Wapello (chief)
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Wapello was a peace chief of the Meskwaki, or Fox, people in what is now Iowa. Although born a Sauk, he became one of the principal civil leaders of the Meskwaki during the decades of United States ex
Chief Wapello; "Wa-pel-la the Prince, Musquakee Chief", from History of the Indian Tribes of North America.
Agency, Iowa
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Agency is a city in Wapello County, Iowa, United States. The population was 620 at the 2020 census. It is the historic site of an Indian trading post and the grave of Chief Wapello.
Wapello (chief)
…to the United States, worked closely with U.S. Indian agent Joseph M. Street, and was buried beside Street at the Sac and Fox Agency near present-day Agency, Iowa, a site now preserved as Chief Wapello's Memorial Park. Wapello was born in 1787 at Prairie du Chien, Northwest Territory. Although born into the Sauk…
Chief Wapello Memorial Park and Gravesite
Mainstreet, 1905