State and tribal law enforcement officers will be able to cross jurisdictional boundaries while pursuing fleeing suspects under a new legal agreement between the Iowa Attorney General’s Office and the Meskwaki Nation.
Summer is right around the corner, which means its prime time for live music, festivals, fairs and family fun. From jazz to rap to country to rock, there’s plenty to listen, dance and sing along to in Eastern Iowa and beyond this summer.
After two years of Covid postponement, the Meskwaki annual powwow returned to Tama
Indigenous people are missing in Iowa, but disappearances span the nation.
The Meskwaki Nation Police Department describing the incident as a “vicious attack” by a large pack of dogs that killed a young woman in the area of Springs Road.
Meskwaki Nation, the only federally recognized Tribal Nation in the state, is “against the use of Native American terms or images or symbols for sports or other marketing uses”
Clinic served more than four times the tribe’s population in providing COVID-19 vaccine shots for the region
Even when the government forced the tribe to leave the state, sending the Meskwaki people to Kansas in 1845, some stayed hidden in Iowa.
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