Missouria

The Missouri ( Missouria ) or Niúachi ( self-designation ) are a North American Indian people of the Chiwere branch of the Siouan language family. Like Iowa, the Missouri, during the wanderings of the Great Lakes in the southwest, from the people of Oto emerged. Before the eviction in the reservations of the stem at the mouth of the Missouri River and the Grand River ( Missouri) and Saline County (Missouri ) lived. Today the Missouri live primarily in Oklahoma.

Name

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

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

Demography

According to the ethnologist James Mooney, the people of Missouri in 1702 consisted of 200 families; In 1780 there were about 1,000 people; 1805 300; 1829 80; 1910, there were 13; then the population has been detected only in conjunction with the Oto.

Today

Today the Missouri belong to the state-recognized Native American people of the Oto - Missouri ( Otoe - Missouria Tribe of Indians ), located in Red Rock (Oklahoma).