Iowa Tribe
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Iowa Tribe

The Iowa, or Báxoje (Ioway), are a Chiwere Siouan-speaking people whose ancestral territory extended across present-day Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. They were closely related to the Otoe and Missouria nations and lived primarily along the rivers of the upper Missouri drainage. The Iowa entered into multiple treaties with the United States in the early 19th century, including agreements at Portage des Sioux in 1815. These treaties established peace following the War of 1812 and progressively ceded Ioway lands. Today, the Iowa Tribe is divided between the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma and the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska.

Portrait: George Catlin, "Notch-ee-níng-a, No Heart (called White Cloud), Chief of the Tribe," 1832. Smithsonian American Art Museum.

13 treaties 25 total items 18 mapped locations

Most Mentioned in Iowa Tribe-tagged Entries

Wildlife

  1. Deer (5)
  2. Beaver (3)
  3. Elk (2)
  4. Indian dog (1)
  5. cat fish (1)
  6. Buck (1)
  7. badger (1)
  8. birds (1)
  9. rackoon (1)
  10. Turkeys (1)

Territory & Encounter Locations

Pin color = Planning (1801–1804) Westward (1804–1805) Fort Clatsop (1805–1806) Return (1806) Post (1806–1812)
Master expedition route Approximate territory

Note: the longest gap between tagged appearances is about 25 months (Aug 22, 1804 → Sep 10, 1806). No journal entries during that window were explicitly tagged with this nation.

Treaties (13)

Treaty with the Chippewa et al., 1833
Treaty with the Great and Little Osage et al., 1808
Treaty with the Iowa et al., 1830
Treaty with the Iowa, 1815
09/16
Treaty with the Iowa, 1824
08/04
Treaty with the Iowa, 1836
Treaty with the Iowa, etc., 1836
09/17
Treaty with the Sauk and Fox of the Mississippi, 1842
Treaty with the Sauk and Fox of the Missouri and the Iowa, 1836
Treaty with the Sauk and Fox of the Missouri and the Iowa, 1854
Treaty with the Sauk and Fox, 1804
Treaty with the Sioux (Wahpeton and Sisseton Bands), 1851
Treaty with the Sioux, etc., 1825
08/19

Journal Entries (12)

French Canoe Men Share Spirits Heading Upriver
Sep 10, 1806
Mineral Deposits of Sulfur, Brass, and Copperas Examined
Aug 22, 1804
Deserter Moses Reed Tried and Sentenced to Run Gauntlet
Aug 18, 1804
La Liberty Dispatched to Summon the Otoes
Jul 29, 1804
Drouillard Kills Buck; Beaver Caught Alive
Jul 31, 1804
Reaching the Platte River Mouth at Midday
Jul 21, 1804
Ascending Mosquito Creek Behind Willow Island
Jul 22, 1804
Clark and Ordway Scout High Prairies Beyond Faun Creek
Jul 15, 1804
Current Speed Measured Below Two-Hundred-Foot Bluffs
Jul 18, 1804
Frenchmen Return After Two Years in the Interior
Jun 14, 1804
First Council with Otoe and Missouri Nations
Aug 3, 1804 · Meriwether Lewis
Sergeant Floyd Dies: Expedition's Only Fatality
Aug 20, 1804 · William Clark

Other Key Figures

William Clark 1304 Meriwether Lewis 1032 Robert Heacock 788 George Drouillard 405 Patrick Gass 326 Mandan 277 John Ordway 214 Shoshone 188 George Shannon 179 John Collins 167 Clatsop 142 Nathaniel Pryor 141
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Cross-Narrator Analyses

AI-assisted scholarly analyses that cite or discuss Iowa Tribe — showing 1 of the most recent matches.

Figure: Iowa Tribe

The Iowa Tribe in the Lewis & Clark Journals: A Note on Absence

Although the Iowa (Ioway) Nation appears peripherally in the broader ethnographic horizon of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, the corpus of journal…

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