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    the Meskwaki language, the Meskwaki call themselves Meshkwahkihaki, which means "the Red-Earths", related to their creation story. The Meskwaki suffered...
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    Mesquakie (Meskwaki), Mesquakie-Sauk, Mesquakie-Sauk-Kickapoo, Sauk-Fox, and Sac and Fox) is an Algonquian language, spoken by a thousand Meskwaki, Sauk,...
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  • Meskwaki Casino is a Native American casino and hotel located on the Meskwaki Settlement in Tama County, Iowa. It is owned and operated by the Sac and...
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    the Meskwaki Settlement, is an unincorporated community in Tama County, Iowa, United States, west of Tama. It encompasses the lands of the Meskwaki Nation...
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    recognized Native American tribes of Sac and Meskwaki (Fox) peoples in the United States. The Fox call themselves Meskwaki and because they are the dominant people...
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  • Young Bear (born 1950 in Marshalltown, Iowa) is a Meskwaki poet and novelist. He was raised on the Meskwaki Tribal Settlement in Tama County, Iowa. He writes...
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    Kickapoo, Menominee, Miami, Sauk and Meskwaki. The latter were also known as the Sac and Fox, and later known as the Meskwaki Indians, who lived throughout the...
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    Fox Nation (Meskwaki language: Othâkîwaki / Thakiwaki or Sa ki wa ki) is the largest of three federally recognized tribes of Sauk and Meskwaki (Fox) Indian...
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    Algonquian-speaking Potawatomi, Miami, Sauk, and other tribes including the Fox (Meskwaki), Iowa, Kickapoo, Mascouten, Piankeshaw, Shawnee, Wea, and Winnebago (Ho-Chunk)...
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    Sauk people (category Articles containing Meskwaki-language text)
    Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa. They are closely allied with the Meskwaki people. Their Sauk language is part of the Algonquian language family....
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  • pitting the Meskwaki against New France and their indigenous allies. This massacre was driven by several factors, including a potential Meskwaki alliance...
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  • adjunct professor at the Hamline University School of Law. A member of Meskwaki Nation, Wheelock is the first Native American judge to sit on the Minnesota...
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    West Jefferson Avenue. Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit was attacked by the Meskwaki during the Fox Wars, and was the target of an aborted attack by English-aligned...
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    were formally developed based on the languages of the Comanche, Hopi, Meskwaki, and Navajo peoples. They used words from their languages for each letter...
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    permission from the Meskwaki to mine lead, Dubuque remained in the area for the rest of his life. He befriended the local Meskwaki chief Peosta – for whom...
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    Potawatomi, an indigenous tribe who had succeeded the Miami, Sauk and Meskwaki peoples in this region. The first known permanent settler in Chicago was...
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  • Meskwaki Settlement School (MSS) is a tribally controlled school with oversight by the Bureau of Indian Education, is located in the Meskwaki Nation,...
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    was formed on February 17, 1843 and named for Taimah, a leader of the Meskwaki people. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area...
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    a Sauk leader. The war erupted after Black Hawk and a group of Sauks, Meskwakis (Fox), and Kickapoos, known as the "British Band", crossed the Mississippi...
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    Blackfoot Cheyenne Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi Eastern Algonquian Menominee Meskwaki-Sauk-Kickapoo Miami-Illinois Ojibwe-Potawatomi Shawnee Language codes ISO...
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  • Purchase of 1842 is a treaty between the United States and the Sauk and Meskwaki tribes, referred to as the Sac and Fox in the treaty. The Native American...
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    scapula hoes, triangular projectile points, and manos and metates. The Meskwaki tribe is believed to have arrived in this area as early as the 1760s, but...
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    in the late prehistoric or protohistoric periods include the Illiniwek, Meskwaki, Omaha, and Sauk. The first known European explorers to document Iowa were...
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    in 1846 after the Sauk and Meskwaki were removed from the state and shifted to the Indian Territory. The Sauk and Meskwaki did not fare well in Des Moines...
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  • The history of Nauvoo, Illinois, starts with the Sauk and Meskwaki tribes who frequented the area, on a bend of the Mississippi River in Hancock County...
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    Meskwaki chiefs led by Quashquame. The treaty transferred a huge area of land between the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers from the Sauk and Meskwaki to...
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    removing the Iroquois Confederacy in New York, but when some members of the Meskwaki (Fox) and the Sauk triggered the Black Hawk War by trying to cross back...
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    Fai-inah, Ty-ee-ma, lit. "sudden crash of thunder" or "thunder") was a Meskwaki (Fox) leader in the early 19th century in present-day Wisconsin, Iowa and...
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  • The Fox Wars were two conflicts between the French and the Fox (Meskwaki or Red Earth People; Renards; Outagamis) people that lived in the Great Lakes...
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    were the Mascouten, the Menominee, the Miami, the Sac (or Sauk), and the Meskwaki (Fox). The Wyandot were an Iroquoian-speaking people in this area; they...
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