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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.
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.
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.
The name "Wyoming" comes from a Delaware Tribe word Mechaweami-ing or "maughwauwa-ma", meaning large plains or extensive meadows, which was the tribe's name for a valley in northern Pennsylvania. The name Wyoming was first proposed for use in the American West by Senator Ashley of Ohio in 1865 in a bill to create a temporary government for ...
The Meskwaki Nation is Iowa’s only federally recognized Indian tribe. The 2020 U.S. Census listed Iowa’s Native American population at 14,486. Meskwaki are 'typical Iowans,' but with certain ...
Map of states with US federally recognized tribes marked in yellow. States with no federally recognized tribes are marked in gray. Federally recognized tribes are those Native American tribes recognized by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs as holding a government-to-government relationship with the US federal government. [1]
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 ...
The Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation tribal leader, Minnie Wishkeno Evans (Indian name: Ke-wat-no-quah) [10] led the effort to stop termination. [11] Tribal members sent petitions of protest to the government and multiple delegations went to testify at congressional meetings in Washington, DC. [ 12 ]