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The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska is one of two federally recognized tribes of the Ponca people. The other is the Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma. As of 2023, the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska’s total population is 5,334 citizens, [1] of which 1,923 reside in Nebraska. [2]
The Ponca people [a] are a nation primarily located in the Great Plains of North America that share a common Ponca culture, history, and language, identified with two Indigenous nations: the Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma or the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska.
The Ponca Reservation of the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska is located in northeast Nebraska, with the seat of tribal government located in Niobrara, Knox County. [1] The Indian reservation is also the location of the historic Ponca Fort called Nanza. The Ponca tribe does not actually have a reservation because the state of Nebraska will not allow ...
Ponca was established in 1856 and is Nebraska's fourth oldest town. [2] ... At the 2000 census there were 1,062 people in 403 households, including 286 families, ...
At that point the Ponca split, and the Omaha settled on Bow Creek in present-day Cedar County. [9] Before 1700, the Iowa, a Siouan people whose language was Chiwere, moved from the Red Pipestone Quarry into Nebraska. [10] The Omaha separated from the Ponca at the mouth of White River in present-day South Dakota.
The 5-acre (2.0 ha) historic district includes two contributing buildings: the Ponca Tribal Self-Help Community building and a caretaker's cottage, both built in 1936. It also includes five contributing structures and one contributing site.
An elderly Oklahoma man has been arrested for the brutal murder of a teenage girl at the center of a decades-old Nebraska cold case, according to reports. ... on his Ponca City home and charged ...
In 1858, under this pressure, the Ponca ceded much of their lands to the United States. They reserved the land between Ponca Creek and the Niobrara, approximately between present-day Butte and Lynch, Nebraska. [4]: 132–145 The land to which the Ponca moved proved unsuitable; poor farming conditions led to persistent famine. They were still ...