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A Div.i'OM •I IhtJ. J. Kit 10#TAMA - A part of Iowa’s debt to white traders, was fore-Indian past win come to life ed to ceded its land to the Unit-for four days, starting Thurs- ed States and be moved to day, when the 56th annual Mes Kansas. Fifteen years later, al-quakie Indian Pwv Wow gels ter much struggle, they sold urxlerway at the Indian settle- their ponies ana purchased 3) ment three miles west or the acres of timber land on the town of Tama. Iowa River in Tama County.Managed entirely by the In- By this time they had teamed dians themselves, the Pow Wow enough of the while man’s way features performances starting'to know if they were to keep at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. the land they had to have theIn addition, an exhibit of the white man’s-law: a deed. • Mesquakie way of life “lowa s Fortunately for the Manuk-Indian Heritage,” will be shown le ^ sclIcrs. no! realiz(. in one of the wickiups set up Uiat the Indians were not Amcr ty the side or the Pow Wow |can citizens who could not leg-grounds. Consisting of more ^ly conclude a contract and than 75 photographs, the exhibit who also, under the terms ol is a duplicate of Uw one done the 1842 treaty, were forbidden for the Iowa Arts Council by to ictun, to Iowa.John M. Zielinski.The council exhibit now is be- Despite these ’’legalities.-’ the! lag oBered for showing and haslMesquakics came to own the been exhibited at Iowa State I land (which now covers more. University in Ames and the San- than 3,200 acres) and the tribal ford Museum and Planetarium metr.oem began reluming ui in Cherokee. . successive migrations from 1S57A major part #f the exhibit onward to the bpnks o( t h c covers the annual Pow Wow - Iowa River where they re-snmething that for the Mesqua- sumed. as much as possible. He Is far more than a simple their former way of life, reunion with tribal dancing. Tnc For 10 years after their first Pow Wow is aboriginal and in j homecoming,” the fnbe exist-practice goes far beyond the Jed as an autonoinais, self-official 56 years, for to the In-lgoveming. non-American body dians it is their homecoming,Jin the center of the sovereign fiesta, convention, social high-.state of Iowa. It was only at light and reaffirmation of a sep- |be end of the Civil War that arete, unique Identity. , the government recognized I heEven more. R is a link loj Mesquakie by appointing a part-the Mesquakie past, a pastitir.ro Indian agent to pay the! deeply rooted in the sell of tribe funds owed it for various! Iowa (in fact, the name Mcs- and successions, quakie means “Red Earth Today, the settlement is a I People”). While some bare left mixture of past and present, the settlement for a life else- for the Indians frequently work where, the Pow Wow is a time at yobs within a 75 mile radius cf returning, something that ac- ol the area, acquire a variety tually began In the middle of of modem Items from automo-the last century when the Mes- biles to housing, but their lan-quakies resisted all efforts to guage and many of their cus-move them to a government toms are still their own. dating reservation in Kansas. back to when all ol Iowa was]In 1M1. the tribe, deeply in theirs.TAMA POW WOW-Tbf 56th annual Mesqaakle Indian Pow Wow will be held from Thursday to Sunday at the Indian settlement three nlles west of the town of Tama. Aa exhibit or the Mesquakie wav of life, “Iowa’s Indian Heritage. will be shown near the Pow Wow grounds.(PhOlo by John f. Zielinski)‘Iowa’s Indian Heritage’ Shown at Tama Pow WowPACKAGE OF 75 FUSTIC TRASH CAH LINERSOur Keg. 3.972 Doys Onlyliner s are 16x14x37 ”, •xfra-heovy plastic and fit 20-and 30-gallon - size trash cans. Twist ties.
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Iowa City Press Citizen
Iowa City, Iowa, US
Mon, Aug 09, 1971
Page 28
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