MESKWAKI SETTLEMENT - The 108th Annual Meskwaki Powwow wrapped up on Sunday at the Powwow Grounds located on the Settlement about four miles west of Tama. The four-day event celebrated various groups throughout the weekend, including a Veterans’ Day program on Saturday. Attendees came from ...
TAMA - An individual was found dead after first responders were called to a house fire in the 600 block of Hall Street in Tama last Friday morning, according to a press release from the Tama Police Department. The Tama PD, Tama Fire Department, Toledo Fire Department and Tama EMS were ...
MESKWAKI SETTLEMENT — With classes officially underway as of Thursday, the Meskwaki Settlement School is welcoming two women into important leadership roles — one a new face and the other extremely familiar to MSS families. Johanna Cooper, a native of Puerto Rico who most recently ...
On Monday night, the STC school board met and worked through some business regarding the upcoming 2024-2025 school year. Many positions remain open throughout the district with the most pressing openings at the high school level. Building administrators reported their solutions for the staff ...
TOLEDO — George and Virginia Kunch left a legacy when they donated their 162-acre family farm in Tama County to the people of Iowa in 2005. Gone are the buildings, cottonwood trees and ag fields. In their place is a diverse reconstructed prairie with wild bergamot, prairie blazing star, cup ...
TOLEDO - On a drizzly rainy Monday morning, the usual suspects started their week by gathering for the supervisors meeting. After 15 minutes of absolute silence where no one had a public comment, the Tama County Engineer, Ben Daleske, kicked off the meeting with his report saying that Iowa ...
CEDAR RAPIDS — A man who illegally returned to the United States after being deported was sentenced today to more than three months in federal prison. Javier Santiz-Santiz, age 32, a citizen of Mexico illegally present in the United States and residing in Tama, Iowa, received the prison ...
The Monday Toledo City Council meeting started off with approving the renewal of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) agreement regarding fires. Next on the agenda was what everyone showed up for, the discussion about the safe routes to school grant application and funding. The council heard a ...
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 the homeland — an effort that Native ...
MESKWAKI SETTLEMENT - The race for the District 53 seat in the Iowa house continues to heat up. Democratic challenger Tommy Hexter was invited to speak at the 108th Meskwaki Powwow over the weekend. Before speaking, Hexter was taught and performed a dance in front of the crowd. In a ...