To Jan, Don and Others, I have to comment that Iowa historians make a definite distinction between ³settlement² and ³reservation². Reservations were lands provided by the Federal Government. Settlement lands were those purchased by the Indians themselves. There are indeed some older history books that use the incorrect term ³reservation² for the settlement lands at Tama. The Tama Indians (ie, Sac and Fox‹Mesquaki) were indeed sent by the Feds to Oklahoma where they were unhappy with the meager existence, poor hunting and unfertile lands. From their sustenance monies paid to them by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, they saved money to come back to Iowa and buy the lands near Tama. (Only at that time they weren¹t considered citizens with a right to buy lands, so an Iowa Governor or legislator ³Tama² Jim Wilson, had to verify that he would be responsible for them-‹sort of a guardianship, in order for them to purchase land. Iowa may have the distinction of having the only ³settlement² arrangement in the whole country, where a native American group actually purchased their own lands. Marilyn Mugan Holmes