[5] A Chiwere Siouan language-speaking people, the Iowa originally lived near the Great Lakes and were once part of the Ho-Chunk Nation.

During the 1820s and 1830s, the tribe signed numerous treaties with the US federal government and were assigned a reservation near the Great Nemaha River near the Kansas–Nebraska border in 1836.

[9] The Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation tribal leader, Minnie Wishkeno Evans (Indian name: Ke-wat-no-quah)[10] led the effort to stop termination.

[11] Tribal members sent petitions of protest to the government and multiple delegations went to testify at congressional meetings in Washington, DC.

[12] Tribal Council members Vestana Cadue, Oliver Kahbeah, and Ralph Simon of the Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas traveled at their own expense to testify as well.

[9] In 2021 Johnson County, IA Conservation Board donated 7 acres of land to the Iowa Tribe of Nebraska and Kansas.