The Indians of Iowa

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I wish to give special thanks to the following people and organizations that have helped or inspired me in various ways over the years. Some have moved on, but I acknowledge them here in the context in which I knew them. First is my family, my clan, and my Ioway people, those still with us and those who have gone, with a special mention of my parents, Gary and Rita, and my grandparents, George N. and Esteline and George W. and Ava, and all my many elders and relatives as well as my siblings Garth, Bryan, Brandi, and Amber and their families and all my Ioway wodi, especially the Pete Fee family and the Robert and Glenda Fields family. It would take another book to name all my elders , relations, and friends from our Ioway people. I would also like to thank the Meskwaki people I came to know during my time in Iowa, notably the Homer Bear family, Johnathan Buffalo, Don Wanatee, and Ray Young Bear. Other tribal people I must thank are those in Iowa who gave me their friendship and knowledge, including the Jerry Stubben family (Ponca), the Smokey McKinney family (Potawatomi), the Maria Pearson family (Yankton Sioux), Irma Wilson White (Winnebago-Omaha), and Lynn Paxson (Cherokee). I also acknowledge those friends in Montana who gave me and my family their friendship and knowledge, including among the northern Cheyenne the families of Herman Bear Comes Out, John Woodenlegs , and Austin Two Moons as well as Leroy “Eddie” Barbeau of Helena (Ojibwa). I also want to remember those folks I knew at the University of Montana, notably in the Native American Studies Department and Kyi-Yo Indian Club, and at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. I want to acknowledge and thank the various people I came to know during my time at Iowa State University, especially my ma- xii Acknowledgments jor professor in anthropology and mentor David Gradwohl and his wife, Hanna, and my major professor in landscape architecture Robert Harvey and his wife, Ann, as well as George Jackson, Tim and Genevieve Keller, Nancy Osborn, Steve Pett, John Weinkein, Mike and Mary Warren, and Norma Wolff. I want to acknowledge from Iowa’s Office of the State Archaeologist Lynn Alex, William Green, and K. Kris Hirst; from the State Historical Society of Iowa Jerome Thompson, Kathy Gourley, and Doug Jones; and from Luther College Lori Stanley. I also wish to thank Mildred Mott Wedel, scholar of the Ioway par excellence, and my editor Holly Carver and her excellent staff at the University of Iowa Press, whose patience and persistence finally brought this project to fruition. There are so many over the years who have helped in their own ways. I apologize for those I have left out, but you know who you are, and I think of you and wish you well. Finally, I wish to thank my wife, Lisa, for her love, knowledge, and unfailing support for years through even the darkest of hours. I couldn’t have done this without her. ...