Iowas

Iowas (loways), a North American people, who were a branch of the Southern Dakotas, and whose domain formerly comprised several western affluents of the Middle Mississippi; especially the Iowa, named from them. None are now found on the banks of this river, or in the State of Iowa, also named from them; but a few still survive in the Great Nemaha Reservation, Kansas, and in the Sac and Fox Reservation, Oklahoma - these two groups, with a few individuals elsewhere, jointly numbering 273 in 1890. The Iowas were the constant allies of the Algonquian Sacs and Foxes, whose huntinggrounds extended along the opposite (left) bank of the Mississippi.