Jimm Goodtracks is a fluent speaker of Ioway, a nearly lost American Indian language. Goodtracks, pictured on Wednesday in his North Lawrence home, assisted filmmakers in the making of Lost Goodtracks ...

I find it interesting that so many place names in the Midwest have come from Native Americans. Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Kansas, Missouri, and Iowa are but a few of the ...

University of Iowa students enrolled in the Native Histories and Endurance in the Midwest organized a Native American walking tour on May 1. The tour — called “Ioway” — was a 1.74-mile route that ...

Lance Foster stood on a grassy knoll overlooking the Iowa River Valley and Coralville Lake for the first time last year, gazing at the land that his people, the Ioway, lived on and cared for centuries ...

Most early maps of the United States were created by government-funded explorers, but in 1837, leaders of the Ioway Tribe presented a map of their own to the U.S. War Department, offering a powerful ...

Three weeks after their premiere in Iowa City, two documentaries that tell more of the story of the Ioway Native American tribe will be shown this weekend in the Quad-Cities. On Feb. 23, Kelly and ...

Tuesday is statehood day. Iowa became a state on December 28, 1846, Iowa’s 175 anniversary. Iowa hasn’t always been the word residents have used to refer to the state. Leo Landis, curator at the State ...

An Iowa waterway previously named “Squaw Creek” has a new name.On Friday, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names approved changing the waterway’s name to Ioway Creek.Ioway Creek runs through Story, Boone ...

Saturday’s perfect late-summer weather drew about 500 people to the 17th annual Prairie Awakening powwow at the Kuehn Conservation Area near Earlham, and history was made when representatives of the ...

Dozens of gleaming classic cars will leave Davenport tomorrow on a 500-mile jaunt around the state over the next few days. John Swanson is a co-organizer of the Motor Ioway 500 which he says is more ...