| Lcnaf uri | http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051119 |
| Organization name | Fox indians |
| Other names | Meskwaki;Mesquakie;Muskwaki;Musquakie;Outagami |
| Org type | Indian group |
| Bio notes | Also referred to as the Meskwaki, Mesquakie, or Outagamie. This Algonquian-speaking tribe historically lived along the Saint Lawrence River in Ontario, but after war with the Hurons and European-bourne disease reduced their population, the Meskwaki migrated west. After a brief stint in eastern Michigan they moved on to the expansive Fox River of central Wisconsin. There they allied with the Sauk to recoup from the massive depopulation following the Fox Wars (1712-1742) against France. The tribe then migrated south to Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri. To ease land negotiation processes when settlers began to look westward, the US government merged the two tribes into the “Sac and Fox Confederacy” after 1832, which ten years later ceded all Iowa land claims in a treaty. After temporarily residing in Oklahoma, most Meskwaki returned to Iowa around because of an 1851 state law that allowed the tribe to purchase land, and by 1857 had estasblished a settlement near Tama County. |
| See also | Sauk Indians |
| Citations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meskwaki |
Baltimore Yearly Meeting Indian Committee Minutes, 1795-1815
Jacob Lindley's Account, 1793
New York Yearly Meeting Committee on Indian Concerns Scrapbook