Iowa people - wikipedia Iowa people Iowa Báxoje White Cloud, Chief of the Iowa, by George Catlin ( 1845 ), National Gallery of Art Total population ( estimated 2,567 ) Regions with significant populations United States ( Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma ) Languages Chiwere language, English Religion traditional tribal religion, Native American Church, Christianity Related ethnic groups Otoe, Missouria, Ho - Chunk, and other Siouan peoples The Iowa or Ioway, known as the Báxoǰe in their own language, 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. The Iowa, Missouria, and Otoe tribes were all once part of the Ho - Chunk people. 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, Nebraska. Bands of Iowa moved to Indian Territory in the late 19th century and settled south of Perkins, Oklahoma to become the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma. Contents 1 Name 2 Population 3 Culture 4 History 5 Notable Iowa people 6 See also 7 Notes 8 External links Name Their name has been said to come from ayuhwa ( `` sleepy ones. '' ). Early European explorers often adopted the names of tribes from the ethnonyms which other tribes gave them, not understanding that these differed from what the peoples called themselves. Thus, ayuhwa is not an Ioway word. The word Ioway comes from Dakotan ayuxbe via French aiouez. Their autonym ( their name for themselves ) is Báxoje, pronounced ( b̥aꜜxodʒɛ ) ( alternate spellings : pahotcha, pahucha, ), which translates to `` grey snow ''. Báxoje has been incorrectly translated as `` dusted faces '' or `` dusty nose '', since the Ioway words use different consonants. The state of Iowa, where they once lived, was named after this tribe. Their name has been applied to other locations, such as Iowa County, Iowa City and the Iowa River. Population Their estimated 1760 population of 1,100 dropped to 800 by 1804, a decrease caused mainly by smallpox, to which they had no natural immunity. Their numbers were reduced to 500 by 1900. In 1960, 100 Iowa lived in Kansas and 100 in Oklahoma. By 1980 their population had recovered to 1,000 ( of which only 20 spoke Iowa ). In 1990 there were 1,700 people. According to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, in 1995 there were 533 individuals living in the Iowa reservations of Kansas and 44 in Nebraska ( Horton Agency ), while 857 people lived in the Oklahoma Iowa Tribe ( Shawnee Agency ), amounting to a total of 2,934 people. According to the 2000 census, 1,451 people identified as full - blood Iowa, 76 were of mixed - Indian descent, 688 of mixed - race descent, and 43 of mixed - race and tribe descent, amounting to 2,258 people. Culture Mary Louise White Cloud Rhodd, granddaughter of Chief James White Cloud, in Iowa regalia, White Cloud, Kansas, 1974 The Iowa have had customs similar to those of the other Siouan - speaking tribes of the Great Plains, such as the Omaha, Ponca and Osage. They were a semi-nomadic people who had adopted horses for hunting, but they also had an agricultural lifestyle similar to the tribes inhabiting the Eastern woodlands. They planted maize and manufactured alum pipes, which they traded along with furs with the French colonizers. Historically, their houses included bark lodges ( chakiruthan ), tipis, and at times, earth lodges -- oven - shaped buildings covered with earth for protection from extremes of temperature and oriented to a cardinal direction. A smoke hole enabled ventilation from a central hearth. During the hunting season or in warfare, they used the portable tipi. Like the Osage or Kansa, Iowa men traditionally shaved their heads and decorated them with deer hide. Like Great Plains tribes, they valued three feats during a battle. History Iowa Indians in London and París, by Catlin ( 1861 ), National Gallery of Art In prehistoric times, the Iowa emigrated from the Great Lakes region to present - day Iowa. In the 16th century, they moved from the Mississippi River to the Great Plains, and possibly then separated from the Ho - Chunk tribe. From the 15th to 18th centuries, they lived in the Red Pipestone Quarry region ( Minnesota ). In the early 19th century, the Iowa had reached the banks of the Platte River, where in 1804 Lewis and Clark visited their settlements. There they engaged in trading with the French and local tribes, thanks to their advantageous situation regarding the alum deposits. Between 1820 and 1840, the Iowa ceded their Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri lands to the U.S. government. By 1837 most were relocated to a reservation along the Kansas - Nebraska border, led by their chief Chief Mahaska ( Mew - hew - she - kaw, `` White Cloud '' ; archaic Ioway Maxúshga pronounced ( mõxuʃꜜkɐ ) ; contemporary Maxúhga ). They surrendered the Little Platte territory in Missouri in 1836. Other Missouri lands had been ceded in 1824. In 1837 they settled in a strip of land in Kansas, south of the Big Nemaha River, along with the Sauk and the Fox. Some 45 Iowa fought in the American Civil War in the Union Army, among them Chief James White Cloud, son of Mahaska In 1883 a number of Iowa moved to Indian Territory preferring to live in the older community village way of life. The new reservation was located in Lincoln, Payne and Logan counties in the Indian Territory. However, despite their efforts to block allotment, their lands were divided anyway. Today the Iowa Reservation in Nebraska and Kansas is approximately 2,100 acres ( 8.5 km ) in size, and has more than 150 residents. In 2013 Tim Rhodd was chosen as chairman of the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska. Janice Kurak is the current tribal chairperson of the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma. The Ioway Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska operates the Casino White Cloud at White Cloud, Kansas on the Ioway Reservation. Notable Iowa people Marie Aioe Dorion Chief Mahaska See also Indigenous peoples of North America portal Native American tribes in Nebraska Notes Jump up ^ `` Ioway Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska. '' Ioway Cultural Institute. ( retrieved 23 Sept 2010 ) Jump up ^ `` Pocket Pictorial. '' Archived 2010 - 04 - 06 at the Wayback Machine. Oklahoma Indian Affairs Commission. 2010 : 16. ( retrieved 23 Sept 2010 ) Jump up ^ Koontz, John E. ( 2004 ) Contribution to Siouan listserv thread `` ( O ) maha '' ( 24 March ) ^ Jump up to : Ripley, George ; Dana, Charles A., eds. ( 1879 ). `` Iowas ''. The American Cyclopædia. Jump up ^ Goodtracks, Jimm ( 16 August 2008 ), personal communication. Ioway Otoe - Missouria Language Website Jump up ^ `` Oklahoma 's Tribal Nations. '' Archived 2010 - 03 - 28 at the Wayback Machine. Oklahoma Indian Affairs Commission. 2010 ( retrieved 31 March 2011 ) External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Iowa ( tribe ). Wikisource has the text of the 1905 New International Encyclopedia article Iowa ( tribe ). Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, official website Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma, official website Ioway Cultural Institute Download recording of a courtship song from the Library of Congress ' Omaha Indian Music Collection ; performed by George Miller in 1897, collected by Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche `` Lost Nation : The Ioway '' -- a historical documentary film about the Ioway Tribe `` Maps, Material Culture, and Memory : On the Trail of the Ioway '' Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture -- Iowa ( Indian tribe ) Native Americans in Nebraska Historic and present tribes Arapaho Arikara Northern Cheyenne Comanche Fox Great Sioux Nation Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska Kiowa Missouria Omaha Otoe Pawnee Ponca Tribe of Nebraska Sac Ho - Chunk Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska Skidi Pawnee Present languages Hocak Omaha - Ponca language Fox language Sioux language Sac language Present reservations Ioway Omaha Ponca Sac and Fox Santee Sioux Winnebago Pine Ridge Indian Reservation Present tribal colleges and universities Little Priest Tribal College Nebraska Indian Community College Historic figures Antonine Barada Big Elk Chief Blackbird Joba Chamberlain Larry EchoHawk Logan Fontenelle Francis La Flesche Joseph La Flesche Old Lady Grieves The Enemy Petalesharo Susan La Flesche Picotte Red Cloud Standing Bear Susette LaFlesche Tibbles Jim Thorpe James Young Deer Moses J. `` Chief '' Yellow Horse Historic events Battle of Ash Hollow Massacre Canyon Battle of Mud Springs Battle of Rush Creek Battle of Warbonnet Creek Grattan massacre Cheyenne War Indian Congress Historic reservations Nemaha Half - 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Question: where did the ioway tribe live in iowa
Answer: Eastern Iowa