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  • noun Alternative form of Meskwaki.

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Examples

  • I remember a local dj playing Paul Revere's "Indian Nation" one day and then getting all sappy about Native Americans and the Mesquakie reservation now casino about thirty miles form here.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Ed Gorman 2008

  • I remember a local dj playing Paul Revere's "Indian Nation" one day and then getting all sappy about Native Americans and the Mesquakie reservation now casino about thirty miles form here.

    Michael Connelly; Casey Kasem; Teen Angel; First Line Ed Gorman 2008

  • I had thought our European ancestors had killed off all the First Peoples in Illinois, but recently I was surprised and intrigued to learn there is a community of Mesquakie, or Sauk and Fox, in Tama County in Iowa.

    languagehat.com: HISTORIC LANGUAGE COMMUNITIES. 2004

  • For instance, Ojibwe literature is very different from Lakota, or Zuni, or Santa Clara Pueblo, or Ho-Chunk, or Mesquakie literature.

    An Emissary of the Between-World 2001

  • There lies the monument to Julien Dubuque, who came from Quebec and received permission from the Mesquakie natives to mine lead on this land, which was under Spanish control.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • Evidence of the Mesquakie settlement from 8,000 years ago has been found at the mouth of Catfish Creek 8991 Bellevue Heights; 1-563-556-0620;

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • War leader (but not chief) of the Sauk and Mesquakie (Fox) nations, he lived in the Indian village of Saukenuk in what is now Rock Island.

    QCOnline Metro News 2010

  • His name is Russell Stone, or so he tells the security guard in the Mesquakie lobby.

    NPR Topics: News 2009

  • Tama, Iowa, and given a Mesquakie name meaning "Standing Bear. ''

    QCOnline Metro News 2010

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