Show ampa TA E jow jai L 00 dont call the hawkeye state loway lowag ES la IA reporters tors for san francisco newspapers D w who h 0 t talked it 1 1 e d t to 0 a goy 0 v N E I 1 ken C e n d dall a 1 1 0 of f 1 iowa 0 w a w when t t e n I 1 ho i e a and nd t mrs 1 r s K kendall endall arrived in thi that it city on their way homo home from 11 holida hollday yIn ln hawaii expressed surprise that the governor pronounced the name of the state its as it Is spelled with the broad a 11 ln in stead of ns as it Is said to bo be generally pronounced on the coast lowny ioway tho the namo name of tho the state la Is propel properly ly pronounced pronounce a with tho the broad a according to the diction dictionaries and their authority Is supported ty ly popular usage in iowa the name of tills this region however was once spelled aloway loway years before it became a state or even a territory its first spelling in the modern f form orm iowa was in 1801 1804 1 when morse in ills his american gazetteer dropped the ily y which lind had remal remained ned in tho the word through its evolution from its indian form johnson brigham Br Ighani state historical librarian in ills his history of iowa goei goes into the origin of tho the state name and finds three possible derivations d v n tion s over BV which 1 1 I 1 ch tit thero 1 ier 0 01 Is s cons considerable I 1 d ernal ae a co con trover sy Y tho i 0 w word c d low iowa i la s either ol 01 t he r a tribal designation a place pance name nallie or a name descriptive of collio character istle of tho the region those who bellevo believe it to bo a what tribal designation point out that pother father andre a catholic missionary writing froni from green bay in 1070 1670 spoke of a nation of indian neutrals between tile the sioux ond and the WInnebago es called tile the alaoen tribe which lived i 12 day aay journey from tile mississippi at tho the early french traders and aill explorers called tho the tribe the ayoung the spanish called it the apouey and the english came nearest tile the modern form forin of tho the word calling it the io 10 ways i the tribe of indians indiana who bear the anine howo a ft ro re now gone front from this state TheArl the tribe be was never large and tile tho BOO 1500 remaining iowa indians now li alvo verun on reservations in oklahoma ands andi kansas 1 |