Red Earth Nation: A History of the Meskwaki Settlement Volume 10 - Paperbackby Eric Steven Zimmer (Author) In 1857, the Meskwaki 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 Meskwaki, or "Red Earth People," began to reclaim their homeland an 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