Iowa State Name Origin

Origin of "Iowa"

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Chief White Cloud of the Iowas (public domain image on Wikipedia).

The name Iowa comes from the Iowa river, which was named for the the native American Iowas (or Ioways), a Sioux tribe. All State Name Origins

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Iowa River in central Iowa; photo by Carl Wycoff on Flickr (use permitted with attribution).