FDI - Missouria

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Missouria

Ethnie:	MISSOURIA (MISSOURI)
*Dialect:*	Iowa-Oto
Language:	Chiwere
Family	Central Mississippi Valley Siouan
*Stock:*	Siouan Proper
*Phylum:*	Siouan
*Macro-Culture:*	Great Plains

Speakers

Language extict

The Missouri were a sedentary hunter/farmer nation but became nomadic buffalo hunters in the summer. They were closely associated and related to the Otoe tribe and located on the Missouri River at the mouth of the Grand River upon White arrival, but soon moved to the lower Platte and neighboring Missouri Rivers.

Tradition states that they were once one nation which included the Iowa, Missouria, and Winnebago . They first split from the Winnebago, and later from the Iowa. A later fission from the Otoe resulted from a quarrel between two chiefs over the seduction of one's daughter by the son of the other. Linguistic evidence concurs with the order and timing of these events.

White pressure and inter-tribal wars forced numerous relocations and large population losses in the 19th century. They finally rejoined their closest relatives the Otoe.

Aboriginal Locations (Subdivisions)

IA Among Otoe

Present Locations

OK Otoe-Missouria Tribe, Pawnee

Year	*History*
1673	Visited by Marquette
1798	Suffered severe defeat by Sauk and Fox, scattered to live with Kansa, Otoe, and Osage
1804	Had town on the Platte near its mouth when visited by Lewis and Clark
1829	Suffered from war with Osage, part joined ioway, most joined Otoe
1830	Ceded Missouri and Iowa land by treaty, joined by Missouria tribe
1836	Ceded remaining Missouri and Iowa lands
1854	Ceded all remaining land except for that on the Big Blue River by treaty, them exchanged for land taken by from the Kaw
1876	Sold west end of reserve
1881	Sold remainder of land for Oklahoma reserve

Year	Total Population	MO	NE	Source
1700	1,000	1,000		NAHDB calculation
1780	1,000			Mooney estimate
1800	300		300	NAHDB calculation
1804	300			Lewis and Clark
1829	80			Swanton
1900	0			NAHDB calculation
1910	13			Census
1930	0			Census
2000	-			NAHDB calculation

Other speakers of the same language:

Iowa, Otoe

Missouria Sites:

Chiwere: Language of the Ioway, Otoe, and Missouria http://ioway.nativeweb.org/language/onlanguage.htm

Iowa-Otoe-Missouria Language http://www.native-languages.org/otoe.htm

Iowa-Oto Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=IOW

Iowa-Oto Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=IOW

Ioway-Oto-Missouria Language Bibliography http://spot.colorado.edu/~koontz/tracks/jgtiombib.htm

Otoe and Missouria Treaty http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0500/stories/0503_0108_03_Oto1833.html

Otoe-Missouria http://www.cherokee-strip-museum.org/Who/NativeAmericans.htm

Otoe-Missouria Flag http://members.aol.com/Donh523/navapage/misso.htm

Otoe-Missouria History http://www.brokenclaw.com/genealogy/hist_otoe-mis.html

Otoe-Missouria Nation http://www.north-ok.edu/sb/six_tribes/6c_otoe_1_4.htm

Otoe-Missouria Nation Returns ... http://www.lewisandclark200.org/index_nf.php?cID=762

Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Oklahoma http://www.epa.gov/earth1r6/6pd/pd-u-sw/otoe.pdf

Otoe Timeline http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/history_oto_tribe/87122