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The Meskwaki Settlement is an unincorporated community in Tama County, Iowa, United States, west of Tama. It is often called "the Sett" by residents.[1] It is home to a sizable community of Meskwaki Indians, enrolled in the Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa, who maintain a tribal school, tribal courts, public works department, and police force. The settlement includes more than 8,000 acres (32 km2). There are about 1,300 members of the Meskwaki Tribe with about 800 living on the settlement; non-tribal members also live on the settlement.[2][3] A large Pow-Wow is held there each year.[4] The Meskwaki Casino Resort is located on the Settlement.[5]
References [link]
- ^ What it Means to be a Meskwaki, Ray Young Bear interview, https://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/youngbear/DesMoines.html
- ^ Official site of the Meskwaki Nation
- ^ Meskwaki Settlement School
- ^ Meskwaki Annual Pow Wow Association
- ^ Meskwaki Casino Bingo Hotel
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Meskwaki
The Meskwaki (sometimes spelled Mesquakie) are a Native American people often known to Anglo-Americans as the Fox tribe. They have been closely linked to the Sauk people of the same language family. In the Meskwaki language, the Meskwaki call themselves Meshkwahkihaki, which means "the Red-Earths," related to their creation story. Historically their homelands were in the Great Lakes region. The tribe coalesced in the St. Lawrence River Valley in present-day Ontario, Canada. Under French colonial pressures, it migrated to the southern side of the Great Lakes to territory that much later was organized by European Americans as the states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa.
The Meskwaki suffered damaging battles with French and their Native American allies in the early 18th century, with one in 1730 decimating the tribe. In the 19th century, Euro-American colonization and settlement proceeded by the United States. They forced the Meskwaki/Fox south and west into the tall grass prairie in the American Midwest. In 1851 the Iowa state legislature passed an unusual act to allow the Fox to buy land and stay in the state. Other Sac and Fox were removed to Indian territory in what became Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska. In the 21st century, three federally recognized tribes of "Sac and Fox" have reservations or settlements in Iowa, Kansas, and Oklahoma.
