Red Earth Nation Volume 10 by Eric Steven Zimmer PAPERBACK 9780806193878

Red Earth Nation Volume 10A History of the Meskwaki Settlement\nAuthor(s): Eric Steven Zimmer\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press, United States\nImprint: University of Oklahoma Press\nISBN-13: 9780806193878, 978-0806193878\nSynopsis\nIn 1857, the Meskwaki (Red Earth People) 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 centuries of devastation and dispossession, the Red Earth People began to reclaim their homelandan effort that Native nations continue to this day in what has recently come to be called the #Landback movement. Red Earth Nation explores the long history of #Landback through the Meskwaki Nations story, one of the oldest and clearest examples of direct-purchase Indigenous land reclamation in American history.\n\n Spanning Indigenous environmental and political history from the Red Earth Peoples creation to the twenty-first century, Red Earth Nation focuses on.