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The Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs is a state commission, [1] appointed by the Governor of Nebraska to defend the interest of indigenous peoples and cultures in the State of Nebraska. [2] The current executive director is Judi gaiashkibos. [3]
Judi M. gaiashkibos (born 1953) is a Ponca-Santee administrator, who has been the executive director of the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs since 1995. According to journalist John Mabry, her surname "is pronounced 'gosh-key-bosh' and spelled without a capital in recognition "that the two-legged are not superior to the four". [1]
At the time of contact with European explorers, their range covered most of Iowa. The Ho-Chunk ranged primarily east of the Mississippi in southern Wisconsin, the Ioway/Baxoje ranged in northern Iowa, the Otoe in central and southern Iowa, and the Missouria in far southern Iowa. [4] [5] [6] All these tribes were also active during the historic ...
Between 1854 and 1861, the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska and the Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska gave up lands except small reserves on the Kansas-Nebraska border. In 1858, a new Great Nemaha Agency headquarters was built on the Iowa Reserve, just east of Great Nemaha River and north of the Kansas-Nebraska line."
Tribal territory of several tribes in Nebraska This section from the Lewis and Clark map of 1804 shows period Indian villages in southwest Iowa, southeast Nebraska, and northwest Missouri. The Otoe, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas tribes are specifically identified. Several language groups were represented by the American Indians in present-day Nebraska.
The terms Commission of Indian Affairs, Commission of Indian Affairs, Commission on American Indian Affairs, or Commission on Native American Affairs refer to a U.S. state-level agencies, operating in several states to defend the interest of indigenous peoples, tribes and cultures. The Bureau of Indian Affairs handles these issues at federal-level.
William Morris, Des Moines Register December 20, 2023 at 3:20 PM Iowa's top gambling regulator is stepping down after two decades with the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission, including 12 years as ...
In January 2015, the United States' Federal Register issued an official list of 566 tribes that are Indian Entities Recognized and Eligible To Receive Services From the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs. [5] The number of tribes increased to 567 in July 2015 with the federal recognition of the Pamunkey tribe in Virginia. [6]