Mythologies of the Ioway Tribe
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 . 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 Oklah...