15 Facts About Meskwaki

Meskwaki, known by the European exonyms Fox Indians or the Fox, are a Native American people.

Meskwaki suffered damaging wars with the French and their Native American allies in the early 18th century, with one in 1730 decimating the tribe.

Meskwaki are of Algonquian origin from the prehistoric Woodland period culture area.

The Meskwaki language is a dialect of the Sauk-Fox-Kickapoo language spoken by the Sauk, Meskwaki, and Kickapoo, within the Algonquian languages family.

Meskwaki gained control of the Fox River system in eastern and central Wisconsin.

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Meskwaki fought against the French, in what are called the Fox Wars, for more than three decades to preserve their homelands.

Sauk and Meskwaki allied in 1735 in defense against the French and their allied Indian tribes.

Anishinaabe peoples called the Meskwaki, meaning "people on the other shore", referring to their territories south of the Great Lakes.

Some Meskwaki were involved with Sac warriors in the Black Hawk War over homelands in Illinois.

The United States persuaded the Sauk and Meskwaki to sell all their claims to land in Iowa in a treaty of October 1842.

The Dakota Sioux called the Meskwaki who moved west of the Mississippi River the "lost people" because they had been forced to leave their homelands.

Some Meskwaki remained hidden in Iowa, with others returning within a few years.

In 1851 the Iowa legislature passed an unprecedented act to allow the Meskwaki to buy land even though they had occupied it by right before and stay in the state.

In 1857, the Meskwaki purchased the first 80 acres in Tama County; Tama was named for Taimah, a Meskwaki chief of the early 19th century.

Meskwaki men used their language to keep Allied communications secret in actions against the Germans in North Africa.