Meskwaki (pub)

Oct. 8, 1845 => 1,271 Meskwaki leave the agency for Kansas. By the end of the year four-fifths of the Meskwaki were still in Iowa. 

A year later in Oct. 1846 only 847 Meskwaki were at theKansas reservation to receive their annuity payments. The 424 missing Meskwaki were scattered in Iowa.

https://www.meskwaki.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Meskwaki-A-Narrative-of-Chronology-and-Perspectives.pdf

1846 - Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. 

Some Meskwaki escaped to Boone County near present day Madrid. A company of dragoons were sent to capture and escort them to Kansas. A stone tablet was found years later. 

Stone Tablet. Historical Museum, Madrid, Iowa => 

https://madridiamuseum.com/qrcode1.html

1848, June 3 

“About two months ago more than thirty Indians passed through our city in order to settle farther west. They were oddly dressed, brown in color, the men were tall but the women were small. The men were armed with small bore rifles. They had adorned themselves by painting their faces with red ocher and blue. The chiefs were with them and stood out above the others by their feathers and beads which hung about their necks and heads. On the whole they looked pretty wild. That was also evident from their very strange language.” 

-- H. Hospers. Dutch Immigrant

https://www.meskwaki.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Meskwaki-A-Narrative-of-Chronology-and-Perspectives.pdf 

See Kappler's Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, Vol. II, pp. 495, 546