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1718 Guillaume Delisle map, showing locations of the Ioway (Aiouez au Pauotez), the Omaha (Maha), the Otoe (Octotata), and the Kaw (Cansez), and the main voyageur trail (Chemin des voyageurs). Several Native American tribes hold or have held territory within the lands that are now the state of Iowa. [1] [2] [3]
When the American Indians first arrived in what is now Iowa more than 13,000 years ago, they were hunters and gatherers living in a Pleistocene glacial landscape. By the time European explorers visited Iowa, American Indians were largely settled farmers with complex economic, social, and political systems. This transformation happened gradually.
Iowa became part of the United States of America after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, but uncontested U.S. control over what is now Iowa occurred only after the War of 1812 and after a series of treaties eliminated Indian claims on the state. Beginning in the 1830s Euro-American settlements appeared in the Iowa Territory, U.S. statehood was ...
In some cases there are early European trade goods present, indicating occupation continued into the Protohistoric or early Historic period. [1] All 7 sites were excavated in 1934 and 1936 by Dr. Charles Reuben Keyes and Mr. Elliason Orr: [1] Map of Upper Iowa River Oneota site complex. Lane Village site and mound group (13Ae18 and 13Ae19)
The following is the list of Polish tribes that inhabited the lands of Poland in the early Middle Ages, at the beginning of the Polish state. They shared fundamentally common culture and language and together they formed what is now Polish ethnicity and the culture of Poland.
Lee County, Iowa and the "Half Breed Tract" historic detail, from an Iowa 1905 census map A Half-Breed Tract was located in Lee County , Iowa . An 1824 treaty between the Sauk people , the Fox tribe , and the United States set aside a reservation for mixed-blood people related to the tribes.
The Blood Run Site is an archaeological site on the border of the US states of Iowa and South Dakota.The site was essentially populated for 8,500 years, within which earthworks structures were built by the Oneota Culture and occupied by descendant tribes such as the Ioway, Otoe, Missouri, and shared with Quapaw and later Kansa, Osage, and Omaha (who were both Omaha and Ponca at the time) people.
Iowa City. Iowa River; Upper Iowa River; Algona; Anamosa – named after the legend of a local Native American girl; Battle Creek – named for a skirmish between Native American tribes near the stream.