"Environmental and tribal history of the Meskwaki Nation since the 1850s and the tribe's struggle for sovereignty"--

Weaver can write with both lyrical excitement and gritty power.-San Francisco Chronicle

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

Vine Deloria, Jr., leading Native American scholar and author of the best-selling God is Red, addresses the conflict between mainstream scientific theory about

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