page_title: American Indians of Iowa
section_title: Algonquian speakers
hierarchical_section_title: American Indians of Iowa / Historic period / Algonquian speakers
caption_attribution_description: English: Sauk (or Sac) Indian family photographed by Frank Rinehart (1861-1928)
context_page_description: American Indians of Iowa include numerous Native American tribes and prehistoric cultures that have lived in this territory for thousands of years. There has been movement both within the territory, by prehistoric cultures that descended into historic tribes, and by other historic tribes that migrated into the territory from eastern territories. In some cases they were pushed by development pressure and warfare.
context_section_description: Tribes from the early historical period:
  Illinois Confederacy (including Moingona, Peoria, and Piankashaw)
  Kickapoo. A subgroup occupied the Upper Iowa River region in the late 1600s and early 1700s; they may have been called the "Mahouea".
  Mascouten
  Meskwaki (Fox)
  Sauk
  The encroachment of Europeans and long-term conflict among Algonquian and Iroquoian tribes in the east pushed many eastern tribes into the Midwest. The Meskwaki have maintained a presence in Iowa, even after official removal in 1846. They established a recognized Settlement.
caption: Sauk family, 1899
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