By: Mary Challender
One hundred and seventy years after they were forced from their ancestral homelands, the Ioway Indians are being welcomed back to Iowa.
The reunion starts Saturday and Sunday with Ioway Heritage Weekend at the Living History Farms.
It continues through October with a world film premiere, a statewide Native Ioway History Week and Ioway Archaeology Month - all honoring the Indian tribe from which this state gets its name.
As many as 150 Ioway from all over the nation are expected to converge on Iowa for the festivities.
That would be the largest tribal contingent in the state since 1837, the year the federal government pushed out the Ioway to make way for advancing white settlers, according to John Palmquist, a retired Montgomery County farmer who has developed close connections with tribe members living in Kansas.
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