Red Earth Nation: A History of the Meskwaki Settlement rez uncovering misunderstandings and outright deceptions

uncovering misunderstandings and outright deceptions that helped lead to war in 1862

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Red Earth Nation: A History of the Meskwaki Settlement rez uncovering misunderstandings and outright deceptionsIn 1857, the Meskwaki Nation purchased an eighty acre parcel of land along the Iowa River. With that modest plot secured as a place to rest and rebuild after centuries of devastation and dispossession, the Meskwaki, or "Red Earth People," began to reclaim their homeland an effort that Native nations continue to this day in what has recently come to be called the #Landback movement. Red Earth Nation explores the long history of #Landback through the