Ioway Life, 275: Reservation and Reform, 1837-1860

by Greg Olson

In 1837 the Ioways, an Indigenous people who had called most of present-day Iowa and Missouri home, were suddenly bound by the Treaty of 1836 with the U.S. federal government to restrict themselves to a two-hundred-square-mile parcel of land west of the Missouri River. Forcibly removed to the newly created Great Nemaha Agency, the Ioway men, women, and children, numbering nearly a thousand, were promised that through hard work and discipline...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806152117
• ISBN13: 9780806152110
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"