Missouria

Missouria
Niúachi
Total population
fewer than 1,393[1]
Regions with significant populations
United States (Oklahoma, previously Missouri)
Languages
English, formerly Chiwere
Religion
Christianity (Protestant and Roman Catholic), Native American Church
Related ethnic groups
Otoe, Iowa, and Ho-Chunk
PeopleNiútachi
LanguageNiútachi ich'é,
Hand Talk
CountryNiútachi Máyaⁿ

The Missouria or Missouri (in their own language, Niúachi, also spelled Niutachi) are a Native American tribe that originated in the Great Lakes region of what is now the United States before European contact.[2] The tribe belongs to the Chiwere division of the Siouan language family, together with the Ho-Chunk, Winnebago, Iowa, and Otoe.[2]

Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, the tribe lived in bands near the mouth of the Grand River and Missouri rivers at its confluence with the Missouri River, the mouth of the Missouri at its confluence with the Mississippi River, and in present-day Saline County, Missouri. Since Indian removal, they live primarily in Oklahoma. They are federally recognized as the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, headquartered in Red Rock, Oklahoma.

  1. ^ Oklahoma Indian Affairs. Oklahoma Indian Nations Pocket Pictorial Directory. Archived 11 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine 2008: 24. (retrieved 16 July 2009)
  2. ^ a b May, John D. "Otoe-Missouria" Oklahoma Historical Society's Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture. 2009. Accessed March 16, 2024.