JOSEPH M. STREET
(Joseph Montfort Street)
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While some of the Indian agents were dishonest and stole as much as they could, others like Street, meant well but had no experience or preparation for the job.
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General Joseph Montfort Street was a 19th-century American pioneer, trader and US Army officer. During the 1820s and 1830s, he was also a U.S. Indian Agent to the Winnebago and later to the Sauk and Fox tribes after the Black Hawk War. His eldest son was Joseph H. D. Street, the first appointed registrar of the Council Bluffs Land Office in western Iowa.
