Ioway
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Ioway |
| Ethnie: | IOWAY (IOWA) |
| Language: | Ioway-Otoe-Missouria |
| Family | Central Mississippi Valley Siouan |
| Stock: | Siouan Proper |
| Phylum: | Siouan |
| Macro-Culture: | Great Plains |
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| The Ioway were a sedentary hunter/farmer tribe closely related to the Otoe and Missouri. They ranged over most of northern Iowa. They relocated a great deal due to conflict with other tribes and White pressure. |
| Aboriginal Locations (Villages #) |
| IA Wolf 1 |
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| Year | History |
| 1685 | Ioway met Nicolas Perrot in Wisconsin |
| 1700 | Pierre La Sueu reached the Mahkahto River (Blue Earth River) tributary to the Minnesota River, was told that the river belonged to the Ayavois (Ioways) and the Otoctatas (Otoes) |
| 1702 | D'Iberville mentioned that the Ayooues and Octatas were about 300 families, tribe took losses in war with Sioux |
| 1757 | Ioways visited Montreal to deliver two members of tribe who had murdered two Frenchmen, murderers pardoned by French; tribe aided French in successful siege of British Fort George (Fort William Henry) |
| 1804 | Lewis and Clark visited by Ioway on Mississippi River |
| 1814 | Allotted lands "Platte Purchase" |
| 1819 | Regularly visited Fort Osage |
| 1821 | Defeated by Fox under Black Hawk |
| 1824 | Treaty, ceded land |
| 1830 | Treaty, ceded land |
| 1836 | Treaty, moved to Nebraska , Kansas |
| 1854 | Treaty, ceded land |
| 1861 | Treaty, ceded land |
| 1866 | Five delegates from the Iowa tribe visited Washington D. C. to renegotiate the Treaty of 1861 |
| 1883 | Many moved to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) |
| Year | Total Population | IA | KA | NE | OK | Other | Source |
| 1700 | 1,200 | NAHDB calculation | |||||
| 1702 | Iberville described the Ioway war power as 300 good men | ||||||
| 1736 | Chauvignerie estimated 80 warriors | ||||||
| 1760 | 1,100 | Swanton | |||||
| 1777 | Cruzat reported that there were 250 warriors | ||||||
| 1800 | 800 | NAHDB calculation | |||||
| 1804 | 800 | Lewis and Clark, 200 warriors | |||||
| 1829 | 1,000 | Swanton | |||||
| 1832 | 1,400 | Catlin | |||||
| 1836 | 992 | Census | |||||
| 1843 | 470 | US Indian Office | |||||
| 1885 | 226 | 138 | 88 | Swanton | |||
| 1900 | 300 | 200 | 100 | NAHDB calculation | |||
| 1905 | 314 | 225 | 89 | Swanton | |||
| 1923 | 420 | 338 | 82 | US Indian Office | |||
| 1930 | 158 | 10 | 83 | 66 | 5 | Census | |
| 1973 | 408 | BIA | |||||
| 1981 | 483 | BIA | |||||
| 1989 | 553 | BIA | |||||
| 1994 | 366 | 366 | Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma | ||||
| 2000 | 900 | 100 | 400 | 400 | NAHDB calculation | ||
| 2005 | 500 | 100 | 400 | Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska |
| Other speakers of the same language: |
| Otoe, Missouria |
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