Kiosaquay

Kiosaquay is one of the names recorded for the Des Moines River, which flows southeast across Iowa to the Mississippi. The Sauk and Meskwaki name Ke-o-shaw-qua, meaning Hermit’s River, also gave its name to a settlement farther downstream. The river had other names among the peoples who knew it: the Dakota called it Inyan Shasha, or Red Stone, while an early French map named it for the Otoe. Its valley cuts across the plains before reaching the great river.

The later city of Des Moines lies here.