actions against the Germans in North Africa. Twenty-seven Meskwaki men, then 16% of the Meskwaki population in Iowa, enlisted together in the U.S. Army in January 1941. The modern Meskwaki Settlement in Tama County maintains a casino, tribal schools, tribal courts, tribal police and a public works department. Contemporary tribes Today the three federally recognized Sac and Fox tribes are: Sac and Fox Nation, headquartered in Stroud, Oklahoma; Sac and Fox of the Mississippi in Iowa, headquartered in Tama, Iowa; and Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska, headquartered in Reserve, Kansas. Notable Meskwaki Appanoose, chief Ke-shes-wa, a Fox chief Ray Young Bear, writer and poet Marie-Angélique Memmie Le Blanc, captured by French Duane Slick, artist Ska-ba-quay Tesson, artist Wapello, also featured in McKenney and Hall Attakullakulla, adopted into the Cherokee Tribe Mary Young Bear, inducted into the Iowa Women's hall of Fame; 2021 See also Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska Indigenous peoples of the Eastern Woodlands Kickapoo Mascouten Native American tribes in Nebraska USS Appanoose (AK-226), a U.S. Navy ship named for Appanoose, a Meskwaki chief USS Wapello (YN-56), a U.S. Navy ship named for Wapello, a Meskwaki chief Mid-Continent Airlines References Further reading Buffalo, Jonathan 1993 Introduction to Mesquaki History, Parts I-III. The Legend:p. 11, 4.6, 6–7. Daubenmier, Judith M. 2008 The Meskwaki and Anthropologists. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln. Edmunds, R. David, and Joseph L. Peyser 1993 The Fox Wars: The Mesquakie Challenge to New France. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma.no Green, Michael D. 1977 Mesquakie Separatism in the Mid 19th Century. Center for the History of the American Indian, The Newberry Library Chicago, Chicago. Green, Michael D. 1983 "We Dance in Opposite Directions": Mesquakie (Fox) Separatism from the Sac and Fox Tribe. Ethnohistory 30(3):129–140. Gussow, Zachary 1974 Sac, Fox, and Iowa Indians I. American Indian Ethnohistory: North Central and Northeastern Indians American Indian Ethnohistory: North Central and Northeastern Indians. Garland Publishing, New York. Leinicke, Will 1981 The Sauk and Fox Indians in Illinois. Historic Illinois 3(5):1–6. Michelson, Truman 1927, 1930 Contributions to Fox Ethnology. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletins 85, 95. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Peattie, Lisa Redfield 1950 Being a Mesquakie Indian. University of Chicago, Chicago. Rebok, Horace M. 1900 The Last of the Mus-Qua-Kies and the Indian Congress 1898. W.R. Funk, Dayton, Ohio. Smith, Huron H. 1925 The Red Earth Indians. In Yearbook of the