The name by which we know them—that of IOWAY—(or IOWA, which is the form the word takes when applied to the State)—is not that for themselves, nor is it a name which belongs to the language of any _one_ Indian tribe; but seems to have been made up, or compounded, by the early French, from the Dakota-Sioux designation for them of Äyu’h’äpä, by taking the first two syllables, Ayu’, and adding to it one of the common Algonquin-French terminations to tribal names in _ois_, _vois_, or _vais_ or _ouez_: all of which terminations appear on the early records compounded with Ayu, or a modification of it, to indicate the Ioway Tribe. In La Harpe’s[50] narrative of Le Sueur’s[51] mining expedition, in 1700, to the Blue Earth region, in now Minnesota, where the Ioways are first of record referred to, they are written of as “AYA-VOIS”; in Pennecaud’s[52] relation of the same expedition they are the Aiaos or Aiavos, (his MSS[53] in the Congressional Library is obscure); in Charlevoix’s[54] history, 1722, he gives the name with a characteristic effort at precision, as “AIOUEZ”; and in Lewis and Clark’s TRAVELS, 1812,[55] they appear as “AYAUWAYS.” The French first knew of the Ajowæ through the Dakota-Sioux: (as we will observe hereafter in the gleanings of their early history,) and it is not surprising to me that they should (or that other Indian tribes should) seek to find some easier way of distinguishing the Tribe than to attempt to pronounce the extremely difficult _guttural_ ending of their Sioux designation. THE DAKOTA-LEXICON[56] thus gives its meaning: “Ayu’hpä, _n. p._ (_sleepy ones_:) the _Ioway Indians_.” The proper name which the Ioway give themselves, acknowledging no other, is Pähutch’æ, _Dusty-Heads_: sometimes translated, but I think erroneously, _Dusty-Noses_.[57] The prefix _pä_ anciently signified _head_; and it does yet in some cognate dialects and in combinations, especially in old hereditary proper names; though in modern parlance it is generally confined to _nose_, but not invariably. [Illustration: AN IOWAY GRAMMAR, ILLUSTRATING THE PRINCIPLES OF THE LANGUAGE USED BY THE IOWAY, OTOE AND MISSOURI INDIANS. [Illustration] PREPARED AND PRINTED BY REV. WM. HAMILTON AND REV. S. M. IRVIN. _Under the direction of the Presbyterian B. F. M._ IOWAY AND SAC MISSION PRESS. 1848. EXACT SIZE OF THE ORIGINAL ] Inquiring into the origin of this name Pähutch’æ, which, whether meaning _Dusty-Heads_ or _Dusty-Noses_, is quite a singular one for a people to confer upon themselves, I find recorded a _theory_ to fit each translation. In Schoolcraft’s official COLLECTIONS, in a paper prepared February 1, 1848, by the Ioway missionaries,[58] page 262, volume III, I read of the fanciful and somewhat strained solution, as follows: