...Saul Schwartz; William Green In the period circa 1765–1820, a time of imperial competition in central North America, Ioway Indians lived at a village site known today as Iowaville and interacted with colonial officials and traders representing Spain, Britain, and the United States. Ethnohistorians...

... century, future commissioner of Indian affairs Thomas McKenney declared, “of all the tribes that hunt between the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers . . . next to the Sioux . . . the Ioway were once the most numerous and powerful.”12 In the first years Iowa Adaptations...