“Kee-shes-wa, A Fox Chief”（福克斯酋长Kee-shes-wa），来自《History of the Indian Tribes of North America》（1836年-1844年，三卷）酋长Wapello（英语：Wapello (chief)）：“Wa-pel-la the Prince, Musquakee Chief”（梅斯克瓦基酋长Wa-pel-la王子），来自《History of the Indian Tribes of North America》
与法国人的第一次福克斯战争（英语：First Fox War）从1712年延续到1714年。这场第一场福克斯战争纯粹是经济性的，因为法国希望有权使用河流系统通过密西西比河。1728年第二次福克斯战争（英语：Second Fox War）后，梅斯克瓦基族人口降至1500人。他们向索克人寻求庇护，但是法国的战争被带到了那个部落。在第二次福克斯战争中，法国加强向部落施压，以获得福克斯和沃尔夫河的通道。九百名福克斯人：300名战士和其他主要是妇孺的人，尝试在伊利诺伊州之中突围并联络东方的英国和易洛魁联盟，[9]但是法国和数百名美国原住民盟友的联合军队的人数远远超过他们。1730年9月9日，大多数福克斯战士阵亡；许多妇孺被俘虏为印第安奴隶或被法国盟军杀害。[9]
美国政府试图通过扣除条约赋予的年金来迫使部落回到堪萨斯州的保留地。十年后，1867年，美国才开始向艾奥瓦州的梅斯克瓦基族给予年金。他们承认这个部落为“密西西比州、艾奥瓦州的萨克与福克斯族部落（英语：Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa）”。它的法律地位并不清晰。该部落获得了正式的联邦承认，并获得印第安事务局的资格。它也与艾奥瓦州保持着持续的关系，因为部落对由州长托管的土地的私人所有权。
Smith, Huron H., 1928, Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:175-326, page 217218 (Note: This source comes from the Native American ethnobotany database (http://naeb.brit.org/ （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）) which lists the plant as Oligoneuron rigidum var. rigidum. Accessed 19 January 2018
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