Red Earth Nation: A History of the Meskwaki Settlement

Red Earth Nation: A History of the Meskwaki SettlementIn 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

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In From the Skin

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Many Native constitutions were written by the federal government

These theories made art a natural tool for policy makers and educators to use in achieving their assimilationist goals of turning student "savages" into civilized men and women

and toward self-governance

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Expressive culture has always been an important part of the social