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.
