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  2. Native American tribes in Nebraska - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Native American tribes in Iowa - Wikipedia

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    Several Native American tribes hold or have held territory within the lands that are now the state of Iowa. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Iowa, defined by the Missouri River and Big Sioux River on the west and Mississippi River on the east, marks a shift from the Central Plains and the Eastern Woodlands .

  4. List of place names in Nebraska of Native American origin

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    Council Creek Township, Nance County, Nebraska; Elkhorn Township, Dodge County, Nebraska; Fontenelle - Named after Omaha chief Logan Fontenelle. Hyannis - Named after Hyannis, Massachusetts, which was named after Iyannough, a sachem of the Cummaquid tribe. [1] Iowa Township, Holt County, Nebraska; Kenesaw Township, Adams County, Nebraska

  5. List of Indian reservations in the United States - Wikipedia

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    State Designated Tribal Statistical Areas are geographical areas the United States Census Bureau uses to track demographic data. These areas have a substantial concentration of members of tribes that are State recognized but not Federally recognized and do not have a reservation or off-reservation trust land. [14]

  6. Ioway Reservation - Wikipedia

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    They became the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma. The bands that stayed became the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska. Today, the Iowa reservation consists of 12,000 acres (49 km 2) that are almost evenly divided between the states of Kansas and Nebraska. The reservation includes parts of Brown counties in Kansas and Richardson County in Nebraska.

  7. List of place names of Native American origin in the United ...

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    The name "Wyoming" comes from a Delaware Tribe word Mechaweami-ing or "maughwauwa-ma", meaning large plains or extensive meadows, which was the tribe's name for a valley in northern Pennsylvania. The name Wyoming was first proposed for use in the American West by Senator Ashley of Ohio in 1865 in a bill to create a temporary government for ...

  8. Nemaha Half-Breed Reservation - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska - Wikipedia

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    The Winnebago Reservation, established by a treaty on 8 March 1865, [6] is in Thurston and Dixon counties, Nebraska, and Woodbury County, Iowa. [7] The reservation is 176.55 square miles (112,990 acres; 457.3 km 2), [8] of which 27,637 acres (43.183 sq mi; 111.84 km 2) is tribal trust land. [1] In 1990, 1,151 tribal members lived on the ...