Produced by Brian Sogard, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) [Illustration: 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_ [Illustration] 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._