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A GROUP OF IOWA
THE IOWA
A reprint from The Indian Record, as originally published and edited
by Thomas Foster, with introduction, and elucidations
through the text
By WILLIAM HARVEY MINER
With Illustrations and a Map
CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA
THE TORCH PRESS, 1911
Copyright
1911
By The Torch Press
August
DEDICATED TO
A BIBLIOPHILE IN THE BEST SENSE; TO A LOVER OF
BOOKS AND MEN; TO A STUDENT OF ABORIGINAL
HISTORY; TO A HIGHMINDED AMERICAN GENTLEMAN
JOSEPH PARKER CAMP
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Introduction | xv |
| The Ioway Monograph | 1 |
| The Iowa Camping Circle | 45 |
| Treaties | 49 |
| Synonymy | 77 |
| List of Iowa Indians | 83 |
| Index | 91 |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| A Group of Iowa | Frontispiece |
| (From the scarce original engraving made in London, when these Indians were under the supervision of George Catlin) | |
| facing page | |
| An Ioway Grammar | 7 |
| (Reproduced in facsimile from a copy of the rare original) | |
| Waw-non-que-skoon-a’s Map | 24 |
| (From the original, slightly reduced, in Schoolcraft’s INDIAN TRIBES) | |
| Ma-Has-Kah, the younger | 42 |
| (After the colored portrait in Vail’s NOTICE SUR LES INDIENS, etc.) |
PREFACE
The material forming the greater part of the present monograph is reprinted verbatim et literatim from certain portions of volume 1, Numbers 1, 2, and 3, Washington, November 30, 1876, of Foster’s Indian Record and Historical Data. The complete work so far as carried out consists only of the three parts here mentioned, printed in folio and comprising four numbered pages each. The editor, Dr. Thomas Foster, who termed himself “Indian historiographer” hoped to be able to publish the sheet weekly “should funds permit.” Evidently lack of finances or the small amount of interest shown in the venture determined against its continuance as it ceased with the third issue.
During Foster’s connection with the Indian Bureau at Washington, John Q. Smith held the position of Commissioner of Indian Affairs and it is not improbable looked with little favor on the scheme. In any event the Record is a desideratum in most collections and as such, even a portion of it may not be amiss in this reprint. Unfortunately its short existence did not permit of finishing the sketches of the Iowa or Winnebago, though it would appear that in the instance of the former but little more would have been added. It is hoped however, that in the foreword the more necessary data are given and that it is appropriately terminated.
The actual worth of the Indian Record is slight. Foster’s idea with reference to several monographs relating wholly or in part to certain tribes was a worthy one and could be executed to advantage even at this date. The two treatises attempted in his short-lived publication were on the Iowa and their parent stock, the Winnebago, although several shorter tribal sketches, as for example those on the Attacapa,1 Oroyelles,2 Arapahoes,3 and Eries4 are included among other features, these being as scattered notes through the forty-eight columns and of more or less value, particularly as