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Depiction of a Susquehannock male on John Smith's Map of Virginia, first published in 1612. The caption reads "The Sasquesahanougs are a Gyant like people & thus atired." The Europeans who colonized the Mid-Atlantic coast of North America typically adopted the names that were used by the coastal Algonquian-speaking peoples for interior tribes.
1718 Guillaume Delisle map, showing locations of the Ioway (Aiouez au Pauotez), the Omaha (Maha), the Otoe (Octotata), and the Kaw (Cansez), and the main voyageur trail (Chemin des voyageurs). Several Native American tribes hold or have held territory within the lands that are now the state of Iowa .
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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 ...
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.
Lee County, Iowa and the "Half Breed Tract" historic detail, from an Iowa 1905 census map A Half-Breed Tract was located in Lee County , Iowa . An 1824 treaty between the Sauk people , the Fox tribe , and the United States set aside a reservation for mixed-blood people related to the tribes.
Sirens blared at 2 a.m. in Rock Valley, Iowa, population 4,200, where people in hundreds of homes were told to get out as the Rock River could no longer take rain that has slammed the region.
The first recorded inhabitants of the Susquehanna River valley were the Iroquoian speaking Susquehannocks. Their name meant 'people of the muddy river' in Lenape. Decimated by diseases and warfare, they had died out, moved away, or been assimilated into other tribes by the early 18th century.