The Meskwaki (sometimes spelled Mesquakie or Meskwahki) are a Native American people often known to outsiders as the Fox tribe.

They have often been closely linked to the Sauk people.

In their own language, the Meskwaki call themselves Meshkwahkihaki, which means "the Red-Earths."

Historically their homelands were in the Great Lakes region where the tribe was first located in the St. Lawrence River Valley in Ontario; and later Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa.

In the 19th century Euro-American colonization and settlement proceeded forcing resettlement south into the tall grass prairie in the midwest.

The Meskwaki, within the designation 'Sac and Fox,' currently have reservations in Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska.