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'''Quashquame''' (alt: "'''Quawsquawma, Quashquami, Quash-Qua-Mie'''", meaning "Jumping Fish") (ca. 1764-1830) was a [[Sauk]] chief who maintained two large villages of Sauk and [[Meskwaki]] in the early 19th century near the modern towns of [[Nauvoo, Illinois]] and [[Montrose, Iowa]], and a village or camp in [[Cooper County, Missouri]]. He was the principal signer of the 1804 treaty that ceded Sauk land to the [[United States]] government.