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The Iowa, also known as Ioway, and the Bah-Kho-Je or Báxoje (English: grey snow; Chiwere: Báxoje ich'é), [3] are a Native American Siouan people. Today, they are enrolled in either of two federally recognized tribes , the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma and the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska .
At the time of contact with European explorers, their range covered most of Iowa. The Ho-Chunk ranged primarily east of the Mississippi in southern Wisconsin, the Ioway/Baxoje ranged in northern Iowa, the Otoe in central and southern Iowa, and the Missouria in far southern Iowa. [4] [5] [6] All these tribes were also active during the historic ...
A band of Iowas left the reservation for Indian Territory beginning in 1878. [5] They became the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma. The bands that stayed became the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska. Today, the Iowa reservation consists of 12,000 acres (49 km 2) that are almost evenly divided between the states of Kansas and Nebraska. The reservation ...
A Culinary History of Iowa: Sweet Corn, Pork Tenderloins, Maid-Rites & More (Arcadia, 2018) Moe, Edward O., and Carl Cleveland Taylor. Culture of a contemporary rural community: Irwin, Iowa (US Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, 1942) online history and status in 1940 of Irwin, Iowa, a small town in Shelby County.
Mahaska County, Iowa was named for him.; USS Mahaska was named in his honor.; Sculptor Sherry Edmundson Fry's earliest public commission was a bronze statue of Mahaska. Recently restored, it still stands on its pedestal in the courthouse square of Oskaloosa, which is the governmental seat of Mahaska County, Iowa, in the southeastern section of the state.
The Otoe language, Chiwere, is part of the Siouan family and closely related to that of the related Iowa, Missouria, and Ho-Chunk tribes. Historically, the Otoe tribe lived as a semi-nomadic people on the Central Plains along the bank of the Missouri River in Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, and Missouri.
Living History Farms. Location: Urbandale, Iowa Era: 1700s-1900s ... a 1700 Ioway Indian farm, an 1850 pioneer farm, and a 1900 horse-powered farm, as well as an 1875 town. ...
The Indians broke camp that night. Defenseless and hungry, the band moved north. Perhaps the first raid came near Gillet Grove, Iowa. A warrior of the group, who approached the Gillett cabin, was allegedly shot after repeated visits to the cabin believed to fancy Mrs. Gillett while also looking for food and rifles.