IOWA TRIBE
1895 Maps of Indian Nations

The earliest known Iowa settlement is believed to have been along the upper Iowa River.  Later they moved into the northwestern part of the present State of Iowa.  In the latter part of the 18^th Century, the Iowa moved to the Missouri River and settled south of the spot where Council Bluffs, Iowa, now stands on the east side of the river.  About 1760, they moved east and came to live along the Mississippi between the Iowa and Des Moines River.  Early in the 19^th Century, part of the tribe moved further up the Des Moines River, while others established themselves on the Grand and Platte Rivers, Missouri.   In 1814, they were allotted lands in what was known as “The Platte Purchase,” extending from the Platte River of Missouri through western Iowa, to the Dakota country.  By treaties signed August 4, 1824; July 15, 1930; September 17, 1836; and November 23, 1867, they ceded all their lands in Missouri and Iowa to the United States.  On August 19,1825, they also ceded lands in Minnesota.  The Treaty of 1836 assigned part of the tribe to a reservation along the Great Nemaha River, in present day Richarson County, Nebraska, and Brown County, Kansas.  The remainder were moved to central Oklahoma in 1883.