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The following tribes also had an early presence in Iowa: Hidatsa; Mandan; These may be descendants of the Mill Creek culture who flourished from 1100 to 1300 CE and whose territory extended into northwest Iowa. [2] Their territory was wide. The Lewis and Clark expedition reported on Mandan villages on the upper Missouri River.
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 ...
The written history of Iowa begins with the proto-historic accounts of Native Americans by explorers such as Marquette and Joliet in the 1680s. Until the early 19th century Iowa was occupied exclusively by Native Americans and a few European traders, with loose political control by France and Spain.
The Iowa (or Ioway or Báxoje, their endonym) Tribe [4] originated in the Great Lakes region. [5] They migrated south and west into Missouri, but were relocated to Kansas under the provisions of the Platte Purchase of 1836. Subsequent treaties in 1854 and 1861 further reduced the Iowa land holdings to the "Diminished Reserve."
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.
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 .
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.
The Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa is headquartered in Tama, Iowa. They are governed by a seven-person council. They oversee more than 7,000 acres (28 km 2) of land, known as Meskwakiinaki, which the Meskwaki bought mostly in the 19th century. In 2005, they established a tribal court system and tribal law enforcement in 2006. [1]