Nation

Iowa

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Region: Plains

In the record

The United States made 9 treaties and agreements that name Iowa as a party, from Iowa at Portage des Sioux (1815) to Sauk and Fox of the Missouri and Iowa at Great Nemaha Agency, Nebraska Territory (1861).

C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 12 cessions of land from Iowa: about 27 million acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. 6 of them came through treaties made under documented pressure. The largest was Land of the Iowa, Medewakanton and others in Iowa, Minnesota and Missouri, ceded 1830 (area 151), about 11 million acres, ceded under Treaty of Prairie du Chien (1830), Sauk, Fox, Sioux, Omaha, Iowa, Oto, Missouri.

Today, Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska and Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma carry this history, as their own pages or research records say.

Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.

Treaty or agreementTreaty under documented pressureExecutive orderShapes from the 1899 federal record: approximate, not legal boundaries.

The record over time

Circles are land the United States recorded as ceded, sized by acres and colored by how it was taken. Bars are treaties, broken promises, court cases and land returns.

Names

Each name shows where it comes from. A nation’s own name is shown as the nation writes it.

Self-names

BaxojeIoway (unaccented)
BáxojeIoway (Báxoje-Jiwere)

Official names

Iowa

Names in treaties and records

Bah-Kho-JeEnglish respelling

Other names in English

Ioway

Land recorded as ceded

Iowa About 27 million acres recorded as ceded by the end of 1894

Treaty or agreement11 million
Treaty under documented pressure16 million

Estimate from Royce’s maps; overlapping cessions counted once. Not a survey or legal measure.

12 cessions. Follow Iowa through the years on the map

Who is doing the work

This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:

Native legal and land defense, nationally

Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website

Gifts go straight to each organization; this atlas takes nothing. Listing is not endorsement: how organizations are listed.

Connections

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Land recorded in this nation’s name 12, as named in the 1899 record

Party to 9

Present-day governments that carry this history 2

Sources

iowatribeofkansasandnebraska.com/about-us/unclassified
We are often called the Ioway to help distinguish us from the state of Iowa.
iowanation.org/unclassified
In the Iowa language, we call ourselves Baxoje (Bah Kho-je), meaning, “People of the Grey Snow.”
iowatribeofkansasandnebraska.com/unclassified
We are also known as the Ioway or Báxoje.

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Confidence: Medium
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