Indian History of Winneshiek County - 1913

Winneshiek County

Indian History of Winneshiek County
Compiled by Charles Philip Hexom.  Decorah: A. K. Bailey & Don, Inc., 1913.


"From Choukeka's [Spoon Decorah] daughters who married white men are descended several well known families of Wisconsin and Minnesota."  Cyrus Thomas (Bureau of American Ethnology)

Includes a chapter on the "Geneology and History of the Decorah Family"

The following index was submitted by Dick Barton

D

De Cora, Angel (Mrs. William Deitz) 38
Decorah, Buzzard (Chah-post-kaw-kaw) 22
Decorah, Little (Maw-hee-coo-shay-naw-zhe-kaw) 36
Decorah, Old Gray-headed (Konakah) (Old Dekaury) (War Eagle) 23
Decorah, One-eyed (Wadge-hut-ta-kaw) (Big Canoe) 25
Decorah, Spoon (Choukeka Dekaury) (son of Hopokoekau) 22
Decorah, Spoon (son of Old Gray-headed Decorah) 37
Decorah, Spoon (son of One-eyed Decorah) 38
Decorah, Waukon (Wakun-ha-ga) (Snake Skin) 28

H

Hopokoekau (Glory of the Morning) (wife of Sabrevoir De Carrie) 21

W

Wa-kun-cha-koo-kah (Yellow Thunder) 48
White Crow (Wa-haw-ska-kaw) 33
White Snake 33
Winneshiek, Chief (Wa-kon-ja-goo-gah) (Coming Thunder) 40
Winneshiek, Little (No-gin-kah) (Striking Tree) 48
Winneshiek, Young (Ah-hoo-sheeb-gah) (Short Wing) 47