About This Site
Baxoje Ukich'e: The Ioway Nation
presents the most comprehensive information on the Iowa (or Ioway) tribe to be
found anywhere on the Internet, including the contemporary situation. Like all
websites, it is continually growing and responding to user needs and
concerns.
Baxoje Ukich'e: The Ioway Nation
is developed as part of the Ioway Grassroots Project, which is made up of
Ioway tribal members. Participants in the Ioway Grassroots Project
Annie Assefa
Candi Bellotti
Brian Blanton
Tim
Blanton
Russ Brien
Elizabeth Denious Cessna
Sharon Fee
Denious
Chad Deroin
James De Roin
Pete Fee
Tom Fee, Jr.
Robert
Fields
Brandi Foster
Garth Foster
Lance M. Foster
Jackie Younge
Gladden
Ellen Graalfs
Harry Graalfs/Eddie Red Elk
Mike
Graalfs
Matt Kathanimane
Alan Kelley
Nancy Kirk
Carl & Gerri
Liberty
Roger Liberty
Harlan McKasato
Kristi L. Moses
Shelley
Bangert Redfeather
Becki Roberts
Kathleen Lawson Roubidoux
Kenneth
Roubidoux
Marilyn Roubidoux
Tom Roubidoux
Jean Dobson Sellars
Jodi
Joslin Slayton
Patricia Joslin Smith
Morris Tate, Jr.
James
Tyler
Jolene & Jo Walters
David Willard
Donald C.
Willard
The site is also sponsored by Native Nations Press, created by Lance Foster, an enrolled member of the
federally-recognized Indian tribe, the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska. This
site is not endorsed or supported by the official tribal government, and was
created solely for public educational purposes and to provide a meeting place
for Iowa Tribal members to reconnect with each other as relatives, and with
Iowa culture and homelands.
About Lance M. Foster, creator of this site
"I am a member of the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, and
have been involved for the last 18 years in an effort to preserve Iowa
language and culture. Our tribe is pretty small, and among the Kansas-Nebraska
Iowas there are no fullbloods left and the culture is dangerously close to
extinction. I maintain cultural and community affiliation with the
Kansas-Nebraska group, through participation in elections and cultural events,
although because of my job I currently live in New Mexico. I am currently
employed as a historical landscape architect in the Cultural Landscapes
Program of the National Park Service, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I also own
Native Nations Press which
is a startup publishing company that is concentrating on Midwest Tribes,
starting with the Native Nations of Iowa.
Many Iowa tribal members have had to move away from the
reservations in Kansas-Nebraska and Oklahoma to various locations in the U.S.
because of lack of employment and economic opportunity on the reservations,
starting from the 1920s until today. This site is dedicated to reuniting the
Iowa community so that we may once again know each other as relatives and help
each other maintain our identity as Ioway people."
----Lance Foster, March 12, 1999 Contact Information
Technical contact (missing pages, links not working etc.) is Juli Kearns juli dot kearns at gmail dot com
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