In 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 ce

In the 1800s, American women were largely restricted to the private sphere. Most had no choice but to spend their lives in the home, marrying in their teens and

**** The standard information sourcebook on the North American Indian, cited in BCL3, Sheehy, ARBA. The present revised and expanded edition (5th was in 1990) i