War Eagle Monument
Wambdi Okicize, popularly known as War Eagle, was a defining presence in the founding of Sioux City. While not much is known about his early life, War Eagle became a riverboat guide on the upper Mississippi, worked for the American Fur Company, and delivered messages for the government during the War of 1812. He became chief of the Yankton Sioux and traveled to Washington, DC to negotiate peace treaties. Dedicated to fostering peace between two groups of people he both considered friends, War Eagle’s contributions to Sioux City ensured the survival and prosperity of the settlement. Today, his legacy lives on in the monument dedicated to him along a bluff overlooking the Missouri River Valley. This historic site is maintained by the Sioux City Public Museum.
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![“Along The Trail” Park Feature - Pompeys Pillar
https://www.nps.gov/places/pompeys-pillar-mt.htm
https://www.pompeyspillar.org/
“On July 25, 1806, while descending the Yellowstone River, Clark “arived at a remarkable rock Situated in an extensive bottom on the Stard. Side of the river & 250 paces from it.”
He wrote that, “this rock I ascended and from it’s top had a most extensive view in every direction. This rock which I shall Call Pompy’s Tower [named for Jean Baptiste ‘Pomp’ Charbonneau] is 200 feet high and 400 paces in secumphrance and only axcessable on one Side which is from the N. E the other parts of it being a perpendicular Clift of lightish Coloured gritty rock on the top there is a tolerable Soil of about 5 or 6 feet thick Covered with Short grass.
The Indians have made 2 piles of Stone on the top of this Tower. The nativs have ingraved on the face of this rock the figures of animals &c. near which I marked my name and the day of the month & year.”
Although Clark named the feature “Pompys Tower” in his original journal entry, Nicholas Biddle altered the name to “Pompey’s Pillar” for the 1814 published history of the expedition. Clark’s inscription is the only known visible evidence of the entire journey that remains intact. Pompeys Pillar was established as a national monument in 2001. An on-site visitor center interprets the expedition’s travels through the Yellowstone River valley.”
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