Iowa people
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The Iowa, also known as Ioway or Báxoje, are a Native American tribe. Historically, they spoke a Chiwere, which was a Siouan-Catawban language. Today, they are enrolled in either of two federally reco
Lithograph of Iowa delegate made while they were visiting Paris in 1845
White Cloud, Chief of the Iowa, by George Catlin (1845), National Gallery of Art
Iowa Indians in London and París, by Catlin (1861), National Gallery of Art
Mary Louise White Cloud Rhodd, granddaughter of Chief James White Cloud, in Iowa regalia, White Cloud, Kansas, 1974
Otoe
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The Otoe are a Native American people of the Midwestern United States. The Otoe language, Chiwere, is part of the Siouan family and closely related to that of the related Iowa, Missouria, and Ho-Chunk
Iowa people
…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 and were all Chiwere language speakers. They left their ancestral homelands in Southern Wisconsin for…
Missouri Indian, Otoe Indian, and chief of the Ponca by Karl Bodmer, c. 1840–1843
Otoe delegation, 1881. Photographer John K. Hillers