Mahaska (Native American leader) Mahaska (Native American leader) Mahaska (archaic Ioway "Maxúshga" pronounced ; contemporary "Maxúhga"), or White Cloud, (1784–1834) was a chief of the Native American Iowa tribe. His son, also named Mahaska, was better known as Francis White Cloud. Mahaska was born into the Iowa tribe. He became chief at an early age after killing several enemy Sioux to avenge his father's death by them. Later Mahaska killed a French trader in an argument; he was arrested and imprisoned in St. Louis, Missouri. After he escaped, he led a raid against the Osage. Afterward, he decided that his father's death was finally
White Bird (Native American leader) White Bird (Native American leader) White Bird ("Peo-peo-hix-hiix", "piyóopiyo x̣ayx̣áyx̣" or more correctly "Peopeo Kiskiok Hihih" - "White Goose"), also referred to as White Pelican (died 1892), was leader, war chief and "tooat" (Shaman or Prophet) of the "Lamátta" or "Lamtáama" band of the Nez Perce tribe with the Lamata village along the Salmon River. His band and the village took its name from "Lahmatta" ("area with little snow"), by which White Bird Canyon was known to the Nez Perce. Chief White Bird, like many of his people, was a Dreamer, a follower of the teachings of Smohalla, the Wanapam