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: "Red Earth Nation tells how the Meskwaki Nation strategically expressed and enacted sovereignty through time and from its unique relationship to land. Eric Zimmer provides a meticulously detailed history of the Meskwaki Nation, guided by and in dialogue with contemporary Meskwaki people. This work of community-engaged scholarship is an important contribution to Indigenous history and Native studies." -- Clint Carroll author of Roots of Our Renewal: Ethnobotany and Cherokee Environmental Governance