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Meskwaki Settlement, Iowa
The Meskwaki Settlement is an unincorporated community in Tama County, Iowa, United States, west of Tama. It is often called "the Sett" by residents.〔(Elias Ellefson, "What it Means to be a Meskwaki": Ray Young Bear interview ), ''Des Moines Register,'' 4 September 1994〕 This was part of the historic territory of the Meskwaki, an Algonquian people. (They were known to English colonists and Americans as the Fox.) Since 1857, when Meskwaki and Sac people bought land here, it has been home to a sizable community of Meskwaki Indians. They are enrolled in the federally recognized Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa, one of three Sac and Fox tribes in the United States. The others are located in Oklahoma and Kansas.
==Government==
The Nation operates a tribal school, tribal courts, public works department, and police force. The settlement includes more than . There are about 1,300 members of this Meskwaki Tribe, of whom about 800 live on the settlement; non-tribal members, including spouses, also live on the settlement.〔(Official site of the Meskwaki Nation )〕〔(Meskwaki Settlement School ) website〕
The Meskwaki Casino Resort is located on the Settlement and generates revenue for the welfare of the tribe.〔(Meskwaki Casino Bingo Hotel )〕 The settlement includes land in parts of Indian Village Township, Toledo Township, Tama Township, and Columbia Township. The tribe holds a large Pow-Wow here each year.〔(Meskwaki Annual Pow Wow Association )〕
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