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Gift shop

The museum gift shop offers scholarly works
about the tribe along with souvenirs like
t-shirts or beadwork for sale.

Library and archives

First and foremost, the center’s collections
are used for documentation, research,
interpretation, and educational outreach at
the Meskwaki Settlement. The Historical
Preservation Department preserves
documentary resources in a variety of
formats, such as printed literature like books,
pamphlets, dissertations, programs, and
government reports, as well as diaries, letters,
posters, artwork, maps, newspaper clippings,
tribal newsletters, oral histories, postcards,
photographs, videotapes, and films. The scope
and content of the library focuses exclusively
on the history of the Sac and Fox Tribe of the
Mississippi and allied tribes in North America,
as well as topics like westward expansion,
anthropology, and art. The museum’s holdings
of textiles, beadwork, baskets, armaments,
and regalia are available for researchers to
study�

Public Outreach

The Historical Preservation Department
routinely provides information and
photographs to the media, researchers,
tribal members, schoolchildren, and others.
Scholarly symposiums have drawn audiences
of tribal members as well as academics and
laypersons from across the country.