THE MISSOURI TRIBE IS OF THE SIOUAN FAMILY THAT SPEAKS ALGONQUIAN. THEY CALL THEMSELVES 'NIUTACHI'. THEIR MOST CLOSELY ALLIED TRIBES ARE THE IOWA AND THE OTO.
THEY HAVE PARTED FROM THE WINNEBAGO AT GREEN BAY. THE IOWA AND MISSOURI TRIBES MOVED WEST OF OF IOWA IOWA RIVER. A FRENCH EXPLOER MAPPED THEM ON THE MISSOURI RIVER IN 1673. BY THE 18TH CENTURY THE FRENCH FOUND THEM ON THE LEFT BANK OF MISSOURI RIVER, NEAR GRAND RIVER. THEY LIVED HERE UNTIL ABOUT 1800.
BY 1798 THEY WERE CONQUERED AND DISPERSED BY THE SAULK AND FOX TRIBES. BY 1805 LEWIS AND CLARK FOUND THEMM INVILLAGES SOUTH OF THE PLATTE RIVER AND ABONDONED THE GRAND RIVER VILLAGES BECAUSE OF SMALLPOX. IN 18 23 THEY HAD AN EPIDEMIC AGAIN AND THEY NUMBERED ONLY 80. IN 1842 THEIR VILLAGE WAS ON THE PLATTE RIVER, NEBRASKA. THEY ARE CLASSED WITH THE OTO AND TOGETHER NUMBER 360 IN 1905.
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