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Several Native American tribes hold or have held territory within the lands that are now the state of Iowa. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Iowa, defined by the Missouri River and Big Sioux River on the west and Mississippi River on the east, marks a shift from the Central Plains and the Eastern Woodlands .
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.
For Alaska Native tribes, see list of Alaska Native tribal entities. As of January 8, 2024, 574 Indian tribes were legally recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) of the United States. [2] [3] Of these, 227 are located in Alaska and 109 are located in California.
Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa (4 P) Pages in category "Native American tribes in Iowa" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
When the American Indians first arrived (in what is now Iowa) thousands of years ago they would hunt and gather living in a Pleistocene glacial landscape. By the time European explorers visited Iowa, American Indians were largely settled farmers with complex economic, social, and political systems. This transformation happened gradually.
Today they have three tribes based in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. Their federally recognized tribes are: Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska; Sac and Fox Nation, Oklahoma; Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa. They are closely allied with the Meskwaki people. [1]
The strong opposition from the Potawatomi and Kickapoo tribes helped them, as well as the Sac and Fox and the Iowa Tribe, avoid termination. [9] In 2021 Johnson County, IA Conservation Board donated 7 acres of land to the Iowa Tribe of Nebraska and Kansas. The first land owned by the Iowa Tribe in Iowa .
Meskwakiinaki, [3] also called the Meskwaki Settlement, is an unincorporated community in Tama County, Iowa, United States, west of Tama. [4] It encompasses the lands of the Meskwaki Nation (federally recognized as the Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa), one of three Sac and Fox tribes in the United States.