Iowa people
The Iowa, also known as Ioway, and the Bah-Kho-Je or Báxoje (English: grey snow; Chiwere: Báxoje ich'é), are a Native American Siouan people. Today, they are enrolled in either of two federally recognized tribes, the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma and the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska.
White Cloud, Chief of the Iowa, by George Catlin (1845), National Gallery of Art | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| estimated 2,567 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| United States ( Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma) | |
| Languages | |
| English, formerly Chiwere | |
| Religion | |
| traditional tribal religion, Native American Church, Christianity | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Otoe, Missouria, Ho-Chunk, and other Siouan peoples |
| People | Báxoje |
|---|---|
| Language | Báxoje ich'é, Hand Talk |
| Country | Báxoje Máyaⁿ |
The Iowa, Missouria, and Otoe tribes were all once part of the Ho-Chunk people; and they are all Chiwere language-speaking peoples. They left their ancestral homelands in Southern Wisconsin for Eastern Iowa, a state that bears their name. In 1837, the Iowa were moved from Iowa to reservations in Brown County, Kansas, and Richardson County, Nebraska. Bands of Iowa moved to Indian Territory in the late 19th century and settled south of Perkins, Oklahoma, to become the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma.