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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.
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 ...
Blackbird - Blackbird is the English translation of the name Wash-ing-guhsah-ba, or Chief Blackbird of the Omahas who lived and died in the vicinity. Bone Creek Township, Butler County, Nebraska Brule - Named after the Brule tribe of the Teton Sioux .
The Omaha tribe began as a larger Eastern Woodlands tribe comprising both the Omaha, Ponca and Quapaw tribes. This tribe coalesced and inhabited the area near the Ohio and Wabash rivers around year 1600. [6] As the tribe migrated west, it split into what became the Omaha and the Quapaw tribes.
One of the many ways Native American influence shines through the United States is in our place names.
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]
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.
Hispanic Americans have lived in the region since before Nebraska became a state in 1867, but large scale migration didn't began until the 1980s and 1990s. In 1972, Nebraska was the first state to establish a statutory agency devoted to the needs of Hispanics, a group which then numbered about 30,000. [ 48 ]