Description: Revealing how the Red Earth People have negotiated shifting environmental, economic, and political circumstances to rebuild in the face of incredible pressures, Red Earth Nation shows that with their first, eighty-acre land purchase in the 1850s, Meskwaki leaders initiated a process that is still under way.
Brief description:
Eric Steven Zimmer holds a PhD from the University of Iowa and completed this book as the A. B. Hammond Visiting Assistant Professor of Western United States History at the University of Montana, where he remains a faculty affiliate.
Review Quotes: "In addition to contributing a new history of a uniquely situated Native community in the Midwest, this Meskwaki-centric history of federal Indian policy reveals the interplay between powerful external forces and Indigenous adaptation, improvisation, and self-determination."--Larry Nesper, author of "Our Relations . . . the Mixed Bloods" Indigenous Transformation and Dispossession in the Western Great Lakes