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(Sac and Fox Nation) Sac & Fox Agency I.T. August 10th, bold manuscript postmark with "Paid 25" rate marking on 1844 folded letter addressed to Hartford, Ct, datelined "New Perches, Wappilo Co, Aug the 9, 1844" from Mary Jane Whipple, letter notes to direct her letters to "Sac and Fox Agency, Wappilo Co. Iowa T, New Perches"; light file fold, Very Fine.Estimate $500 - 750.
The Sac and Fox Nation is the largest of three federally recognized tribes of Sauk and Meskwaki (Fox) Indian peoples. In 1832 they participated in the Black Hawk War against the United States. After the war, the tribe relocated several times from Illinois to Iowa, Kansas, and finally Indian Territory in the 1870s.
Located in Franklin County on the Marias des Cygnes River, this was one of the Indian reservations created for relocation of the eastern tribes. After several moves from their home on Lake Huron, the Sac and Foxes were given land in the unorganized territory of Kansas. In 1867, this reservation was ceded back to the United States in exchange for land in Indian Territory, thus opening the Kansas lands for white settlement.
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Realized: $450