- Missouri tribe
The Missouri or Missouria were a Native American
tribe that inhabited parts of the midwesternUnited States before European explorers arrived. The tribe belonged to theChiwere division of the Siouan linguistic family, with the Iowa and Oto. The tribe lived near the mouth of the Grand River inMissouri , the mouth of theMissouri River , and a place called The Pinnacles inSaline County, Missouri .Their name means "one who has dugout canoes" in the
Illinois language ("wimihsoorita") [McCafferty, Michael. 2004. " [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_speech/v079/79.1mccafferty.html Correction: Etymology of Missouri] ". American Speech, 79.1:32] . In their own language, the Missouri call themselves Niúachi. They were known as the Waçux¢a by the Osage and Wa-ju'-xd¢ǎ, by theQuapaw Fact|date=February 2007.According to the enthnographer
James Mooney , the population of the tribe was about 200 families in 1702; 1000 people in 1780; 300 in 1805; 80 in 1829, when they were living with the Otoe; and 13 in 1910; afterwards not separated from the Otoe. Today they remain part of the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Oklahoma.Their name has been lent to the state of
Missouri and theMissouri River .ee also
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Chiwere language
*Native American tribes in Nebraska References
External links
* [http://www.omtribe.org/ Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Oklahoma]
* [http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/missouri/ Genealogy of Missouri Indian Tribes]
* [http://native.brokenclaw.net/otoe/om_genealogy.html Otoe-Missouria Genealogy]
* [http://www.saponi.us Saponi Nation]
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