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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 Niobrara Reservation is a former Indian Reservation in northeast Nebraska.It originally comprised lands for both the Santee Sioux and the Ponca, both Siouan-speaking tribes, near the mouth of the Niobrara River at its confluence with the Missouri River.
St. Deroin - A ghost town on the former Nemaha Half-Breed Reservation founded by a French-Omaha settler who was killed near his trading post along the Missouri River. Tecumseh Tekamah - Located on the site of a historic Pawnee village, the surrounding hills were used for burying grounds and the highest point was used as a fire signal station.
[3]: 15 They returned to the Omaha and the Iowa and the three groups began a joint journey down the Missouri. The Ponca settled near the city of Niobrara, Nebraska. The Omaha and the Iowa continued downstream, but remained in the future state of Nebraska. [3]: 15 This final and lasting split may have taken place between 1714 and 1718.
Located in part of the Indian Territory, which was later in the Nebraska Territory and then the state of Nebraska, [1] the tract's eastern border was the Missouri River. The reservation extended west for 10 miles (16 km). The north/south borders were between the Little Nemaha River to the north and the Great Nemaha River, near Falls City to the ...
The Otoe Reservation was a twenty-four square-mile section straddling the Kansas-Nebraska state line. The majority of the reservation sat in modern-day southeast Jefferson County, Nebraska . As early as 1834, the Oto relinquished land to the government in fulfillment of a treaty.
The reservation was established by a treaty at Washington, D.C., dated March 16, 1854. By this treaty, the Omaha Nation sold the majority of its land west of the Missouri River to the United States, but was authorized to select an area of 300,000 acres (470 sq mi; 1,200 km 2) to keep as a permanent reservation. [6]
Missouri – named for the Missouri tribe, whose name comes from Illinois mihsoori, "dugout canoe". [22] Nebraska – from the Chiwere phrase ñįbraske, meaning "flattened water". [23] New Mexico – the name "Mexico" comes from Nahuatl Mēxihco, of unknown derivation. [24] [failed verification]