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Iowa is a state of many mysteries, but this is one of the biggest: Why on Earth is Iowa known as “The Hawkeye State”? Even locals and historians aren’t sure, but they have guesses! Here are a few of our favorite theories. 1. THE CHIEF BLACK HAWK THEORY — National Geographic theorizes the name may derive from Chief Black Hawk, who led members of the Sauk, Fox, Kickapoo, and Ho-Chunk tribes in a battle against the U.S. government over their land. Black Hawk’s group was relocated to Iowa from what is now Illinois. 2. THE ‘THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS’ THEORY — James Fenimore Cooper’s book “The Last of the Mohicans” stars a woodsman/scout named Hawkeye who fights alongside the Mohican tribe during the French and Indian War. National Geographic reasons the state’s nickname may be an homage to Hawkeye because of the book’s popularity. The University of Iowa agrees. Its Trademark Licensing Program claims that “people in the territory of Iowa acquired the nickname, chiefly through the efforts of Judge David Rorer of Burlington and James G. Edwards of Fort Madison. Edwards, the editor of the Fort Madison Patriot, moved his newspaper to Burlington in 1843 and renamed it the Burlington Hawkeye.” Apparently, the two men were so taken with the nickname that they campaigned for it until “territorial officials gave it their formal approval.” 3. THE HERKY THE HAWK THEORY — More than 100 years after the creation of The Burlington Hawkeye, a journalism teacher named Richard Spencer created the University of Iowa’s mascot, Herky the Hawk, for a University of Iowa Athletic Department contest. The school reports that Herky came after the “Hawkeye” nickname, but it’s possible both contributed to its use by University of Iowa students and the state as a whole. Iowa’s mysterious nickname is one topic covered in the online history course Iowa 101, according to the Des Moines Register. In an article about the course, the Register interviewed several people who tossed around other possible state nicknames, including “The Jell-O Eaters,” “The Nice People,” “The Corn State,” and “The Tenderloin State.”
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