Missouri (people)

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Historic home of the Missouri Indians
Missouri Indians, painting by Karl Bodmer

The Missouri (Missouria) or Niúachi (self-designation) are a North American Indian people from the Chiwere branch of the Sioux language family . Like the Iowa , the Missouri arose from the Oto tribe during the migration from the Great Lakes to the Southwest . Before the expulsion into the reservations, the tribe lived at the mouth of the Missouri River and the Grand River (Missouri) and in Saline County (Missouri) . Today the Missouri live mainly in Oklahoma .

Surname

The Missouri were from their neighbors, the people of Illinois , wi-MIHs-oor-ita called what "with the wooden canoes" means. This indicates that the Missouri used dugouts and not canoes covered with bark or skins. They were called Waçux ¢ a by the Osage and Wa-ju'-xd ¢ ǎ by the Quapaw . In their own language they call themselves Niúachi , which means people from the estuary .

The state of Missouri and the Missouri River are named after the Missouri people.

Demographics

According to the ethnologist James Mooney , the Missouri people consisted of 200 families in 1702; In 1780 there were around 1000 people; 1805 around 300; In 1829 around 80; In 1910 there were 13; after that the population was only recorded together with the Oto.

today

Today the Missouri belong to the nationally recognized Indian people of the Oto-Missouri (Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians), native to Red Rock (Oklahoma) .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ May, John D. Otoe-Missouria. ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Oklahoma Historical Society's Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture. 2009 (22 Feb 2009) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / digital.library.okstate.edu
  2. ↑ Michael McCafferty: Correction: Etymology of Missouri . In: American Speech , Vol 79, Issue 1, Spring 2004, page 32
  3. ↑ Missouri Indian Tribes. Access Genealogy: Indian Tribal Records. (accessed on February 23, 2009)
  4. ↑ Pritzer, 337
  5. ^ Oklahoma Indian Affairs. Oklahoma Indian Nations Pocket Pictorial Directory. ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 2008: 24. (accessed July 16, 2009) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ok.gov

literature

  • Pritzer, Barry M. A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, and Peoples . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0195138771

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