Meskwaki Essays

  • Autobiography of Chief Black Hawk

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    helped each other out and had each other’s backs at the end of the day. If I had to choose a tribe to be in I would go to the Sac tribe just from reading this autobiography. Starting with the Sac (Sauk) tribe, this tribe was once known as the Sauk and Meskwaki tribe. The name Sac came from the Native name “Asakiwaki” which means “yellow earth people. These two tribes were very close in relation and spoke the same language, but they were still very independent. The Fox tribe was demolished in a war with

  • Ethical Dilemmas: The Meskwaki Native Americans Of Iowa

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    The term Meskwaki conveys the signifying "red earth people," and this name balanced from the dark red shade of the soil found in their general vicinity. In any case, the Meskwaki prevalently lived in the Saint Lawrence River Valley in Ontario, Canada. Through their history in North America, they have conveyed all through Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa. The Meskwaki people have traditionally used a variety of the Algonquian language

  • Sauk And Fox Tribe Thesis Statement

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    tribe was originally two separate tribes, called the Sauk and meskwaki. The two tribes were related to each other, but they also spoke the same language. Than a war with the french almost took the Fox tribe out, so the tribe went to the Sauk tribe, for protection. To this day both tribes live together. As the Sauk and Fox tribe. (thesis statement???) What is the meaning of the Sauk and Fox tribe. The Fox people, also known as the Meskwaki, but can also be spelled like, mesquakie or mesquaki, means

  • Civil Disobedience: A Tool for Cultural Preservation

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    people, in some instances the nations that reside above its people enforce an injustice into its system, that is when the people’s tool of civil disobedience must be utilized. The impromptu occupation of sacred land facing imminent demolishment by the Meskwaki and Sioux tribes is a demonstration of how civil disobedience can be successful in the short term but may not carry enough momentum to cause wide scale change. In

  • Casino Research Paper

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    downtown shops, but when you look at the history of Meskwaki Casino & Resort, Riverside Casino & Resort, and

  • Pipeline Installation

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    costs and increase readily available feedstocks. Concerns surround the destruction of Native American Indian reservations, sacred burial grounds, and national forests. A total of 55 Native American tribes are affected, most notably the Sioux and Meskwaki tribes. The project was given a construction right-of-way of 150 feet; allowing large portions of this sacred Native American land and national forests to be cleared. The pipeline construction plan also poses risk as the underground pipeline is set

  • Name-Givers And Their Influence On African-American Culture

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    According to Plato, the task of a name-giver is sacred. Names are deeply connected to our perception of the world, and a name-giver’s ability to assign them is a weighty responsibility (Plato, Cratylus). Perhaps this reverence for name assignment is what makes it difficult to understand the reasons behind naming practices in other cultures. In her paper about understanding modern African-American naming, Smith demonstrates that the unique practices of black name-givers do not “indicate family dysfunction