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Shane Mendez Windmeyer (aka Buff Faye) is a Native Indigenous business owner part of the Iowa Tribe of KS & NE. The Iowa Tribe  (Ioway Indians) is best known today as the tribe for whom the state of Iowa was named.  By the time white settlers first entered Iowa in the mid 1800s, the Ioway Indians moved their villages into northern Missouri, due to pressure and incessant warfare in Iowa between the Sioux in the northern and western parts of the state and the Sauk and Meskwaki in the southern and eastern parts of the state. Archaeologists call the sites of the ancestral Ioway Oneota, after one the names for the Upper Iowa River, where such sites were first located. Other closely related tribes such as Otoe, Missouri, Winnebago, and Omaha also participated in the Oneota culture.