Excerpt from The Last of the Mus-Qua-Kies, Vol. 17 There have been many erroneous notions in vogue as to the meaning of the name and the date of its origin. A story has been current that the name originated at the outbreak of the Black Hawk war, and that it signifies coward, and was applied to the Foxes by the Sacs as a term of reproach because they refused to take part in the hostilities led by Black Hawk, chief Of the Sacs. NO interpretation could be further from the truth. The name is Of much earlier origin, and is believed to have been the ancient name used among Indians to distin guish this tribe from other tribes before they came in contact with the white man. Literally translated, the name means red earthq', and every Musquakie interrogated on the subject will maintain with great earnestness that when the Indian race was created, his tribe was the first created, was made Of red earth, and as soon as the Ke-c/ze mam-mo, or Great Spirit, had created them, he pronounced the word, Musquakie. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.