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Joseph Smith's life would be prolonged to fill a certain mission - two sources that speak of about five years—one of them giving the conditional...
Quashquame, named in honor of the Native American chief who headed a Sauk and Meskwaki settlement numbering nearly 500 lodges.
1832, the town, by then called Venus.
1834, the name Venus was changed to Commerce.
1839, The Church purchased land from Dr. Isaac Galland, who lived in Montrose, Iowa
April 1840 Commerce was renamed Nauvoo by Joseph Smith
The word comes from Isaiah 52:7, derived from the traditional Hebrew language with an anglicized spelling -
"How beautiful (נָּאווּ, nâwû) upon the mountains..."
Hyrum set over Navoo as "co-prophet"... 2x links in Joseph Smith papers
The Sac and Fox Indians at Nauvoo
“Late in the summer of 1841 a group of Native Americans of the Sac and Fox tribes (who had been displaced from their homelands in Michigan and were now west of the Mississippi in present-day Iowa and Missouri) came to visit the Prophet Joseph Smith. The meeting was recorded in the History of the Church. Joseph writes of this meeting on August 12, 1841:
12 August 1841 - Thursday
"A considerable number of the Sac & Fox Indians have been for several days encamped in the neighborhood of Montrose. The ferryman this morning brought over a great number on the Ferry boat and two Flat boats for the purpose of visiting me. <The Military band, and a detachment of Invincibles were on shore ready to receive & escort them to the grove, but they refused to come on shore until I went down.>
I accordingly went down, and met “Keokuk,” “Kish-ku-Kosh,” “Appenoose,” and about 100 Chiefs and Braves of those tribes with their families at the landing, introduced my brother Hyrum [Smith] to them, and after the usual salutations, conducted them to the meeting ground in the grove, and instructed them in many things which the Lord had revealed unto me concerning their Fathers, and the promises that were made concerning them in the Book of Mormon; and advised them to cease killing each other and warring with other tribes, and keep peace with the whites; which was interpreted to them.
Keokuk replied he had a Book of Mormon at his Wickaup which I had given him some years before. “I believe,” said he, “you are a great and good man; I look rough, but I also am a Son of the Great Spirit. I’ve heard your advice— we intend to quit fighting and follow the good talk you have given us.”
After the conversation they were feasted on the green with good food, dainties, and melons by the brethren; and they entertained the spectators with a specimen of their dancing..."
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Stock certificate for the "Half Breed Land Company", issued in May 1839, indicating the venture was a formal, though speculative, enterprise.
1839, the Half-Breed Land Company was a land speculation venture in southeastern Iowa, tied to the Half-Breed Tract and promoted by land speculator Isaac Galland. Galland, a trustee for the New York Land Company, sold portions of this land, which was set aside for mixed-race descendants of the Sauk and Meskwaki nations, to the Latter-day Saints (LDS) Church.
Land origin: The 119,000-acre Half-Breed Tract was created by an 1830 treaty for mixed-race descendants of the Sauk and Meskwaki nations.
Speculation: The land was primarily swampland and was difficult to develop, but land speculators like Galland saw opportunities to profit from it.
LDS Church involvement: In 1839, Galland offered to sell 20,000 acres of the tract to the LDS Church.
An 1824 treaty between the United States and the Sauk and Meskwaki nations designated by Euro- Americans as the Sac and Fox tribe) set aside about 119, 000 acres of land between the Mississippi and Des Moines rivers, just south of...
The Black Hawk War of 1832 was also known as the Sac and Fox War.
7 March 1843, Garret Bias, a resident of northwest Indiana, wrote a letter from St. Joseph County, Indiana, to JS in Nauvoo, Illinois, proposing a sale of weapons in Nauvoo. Bias claimed he had obtained the arms, which were government issued, during the 1832 Black Hawk War, a conflict between federal and state military units and members of the Sauk and Meskwaki nations
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