. Annals of Iowa. s seven and one-half feet inheight, on a pedestal of granite of about the same height, whichbears four bronze tablets whose inscriptions read as follows: ON THE FRONT OR WEST TABLET. MAHASKA. ON SOUTH TABLET. Mahaska, for whom Mahaska county was named, was chief ofthe loway tribe of Indians. He lived at peace with thewhite man and was slain by an Indian in 1834, at theage of fifty years, in what is now Cass county,Iowa. ON EAST TABLET. Presented to the city of Oskaloosa by James Depew Edmund<son, in memory of his father, William Edmundson, whosettled in Iowa in 1836, and w
. Annals of Iowa. s seven and one-half feet inheight, on a pedestal of granite of about the same height, whichbears four bronze tablets whose inscriptions read as follows: ON THE FRONT OR WEST TABLET. MAHASKA. ON SOUTH TABLET. Mahaska, for whom Mahaska county was named, was chief ofthe loway tribe of Indians. He lived at peace with thewhite man and was slain by an Indian in 1834, at theage of fifty years, in what is now Cass county,Iowa. ON EAST TABLET. Presented to the city of Oskaloosa by James Depew Edmund<son, in memory of his father, William Edmundson, whosettled in Iowa in 1836, and who as sheriff under ap-pointment by the territorial legislature, hadcharge of the organization of Mahaskacounty, which was completed on the 13thday of May, 1844. ON NORTH TABLET. The loways, a powerful tribe of Indians for which the Stateof Iowa was named, at one time inhabited the south-eastern portion of the territory which now constitutesthe State of Iowa, and which includes in itsborders the county of Statue of Mahaska, at Oskaloosa. Iowa. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT 147 The statue was niodeh^d by Mr. Sherry K. Prye, a youngIowa sculptor then residin«»- in Paris. The model in clay wonfor tlie sculptor honorable mention when exhibited in theParis Salon. The statue in bronze was also exhibited in theSalon of 1908, winning- for the sculptor a gold medal andmembership in the American Academy at Rome. At the dedication, lion. J. F. Lacey, in the principal addresssaid: The Iowa Indians, whose name first appears in Lewis andClarks journals as Ayauway, occupied this fertile and lovelyland. Among the chiefs was Mahaska, a splendid specimenof mental and physical manhood, six feet and two inchestall. Mahaska realized the power of the white people and thenecessity of accepting the new order of things that the estab-lishment of the republic had brought about. He took pridein the fact that he was guiltless of any white mans blood,and it was only to avenge the wanton murder of his ow
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