July 15, 1856 – The Iowa General Assembly approves the petition that the Sauk & Fox tribes could return to Iowa.

This move cleared the way, in 1857, for a small number of determined Native Iowans to buy back 80 acres in eastern Iowa, establishing, what is today known as, the Meskwaki Nation in Tama County in East Central Iowa.

A Day-by-Day Calendar of Historical Events In Iowa, William J. Petersen, State Historical Society of Iowa, 1946, p 70

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