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  2. List of Iowa placenames of Native American origin - Wikipedia

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    Iowa City. Iowa River; Upper Iowa River; Algona; Anamosa – named after the legend of a local Native American girl; Battle Creek – named for a skirmish between Native American tribes near the stream.

  3. Native American tribes in Iowa - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. List of cities in Iowa - Wikipedia

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    In 2008, Forbes magazine named Iowa City the second-best small metropolitan area for doing business in the United States. [5] 6 West Des Moines: 68,723 Polk, Warren, Dallas: The West Des Moines area used to be home to the Sac and Fox tribes. West Des Moines is the second-largest city in the Des Moines metropolitan area and

  5. Iowa people - Wikipedia

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    The Iowa, Missouria, and Otoe tribes were all once part of the Ho-Chunk people, [4] and they are all Chiwere language-speaking peoples. They left their ancestral homelands in Southern Wisconsin for Eastern Iowa, a state that bears their name. In 1837, the Iowa were moved from Iowa to reservations in Brown County, Kansas, and Richardson County ...

  6. Effigy Mounds National Monument - Wikipedia

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    Numerous federally recognized tribes have linguistic and cultural ties to the ancestral peoples who built the effigy and other earthwork mounds at the monument site. The National Park Service recognizes a cultural association between the monument and the following present nations: [6] Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska; Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma

  7. Upper Iowa River Oneota site complex - Wikipedia

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    The seven sites on the Upper Iowa River are located in the same area that the early French explorers and fur traders found the Ioway Native American tribe. Archaeologists are in general agreement that the Orr Phase pottery represents the Prehistoric cultural remains of the Ioway tribe, as well as the closely related Otoe tribe. [1]

  8. Ottumwa, Iowa - Wikipedia

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    Ottumwa (/ ə ˈ t ʌ m w ə / ə-TUM-wə) is a city in and the county seat of Wapello County, Iowa, United States. [7] The population was 25,529 at the time of the 2020 U.S. Census . [ 8 ] Located in the state's southeastern section, the city is split into northern and southern halves by the Des Moines River .

  9. Meskwaki Settlement, Iowa - Wikipedia

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    The tribe holds a large pow-wow at the settlement each year. [9] Legislation in 2018 restored the Meskwaki Nation's legal jurisdiction over tribal members within the settlement boundaries. [10] [11] The state of Iowa continues to exercise jurisdiction over pre-2018 legal cases and non-tribal citizens on tribal land. [12] [13]