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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]
The US government later granted land within the Omaha reservation boundaries to the Ho-Chunk, whose descendants still live there. [11] In 1877 the United States forced the Ponca tribe to move south to Indian Territory in Oklahoma, although they had wanted to stay on a reservation in Nebraska. The failure of the government to support the people ...
R.F. Fortune: Omaha Secret Societies, Reprint from New York: Columbia University Press, 1932; New York: AMS Press, Inc., 1969; Francis LaFlesche, The Middle Five: Indian Schoolboys of the Omaha Tribe. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1900/1963. Karl J. Reinhard, Learning from the Ancestors: The Omaha Tribe Before and After Lewis and Clark ...
English: Itinerary of the last tribal hunt by the Omaha. Route drawn as described by Gilmore, Melvin R.: "Methods of Indian Buffalo Hunts, with the Itinerary of the last Tribal Hunt of the Omaha." Route drawn as described by Gilmore, Melvin R.: "Methods of Indian Buffalo Hunts, with the Itinerary of the last Tribal Hunt of the Omaha."
Omaha Reservation: Iowa, Nebraska: 4,773: 307.03 (795.20) ... A state designated American Indian reservation is the land area designated by a state for state ...
At the age of nine, Antoine returned to the Plains with an Indian hunting party. As a young man, Antoine Barada married Marcellite Vient, a French woman from St. Louis. In 1856 they returned to Nebraska to settle on the Nemaha Half-Breed Reservation; because of his half-Omaha ancestry, Barada was eligible for a land patent from the US government.
A separate Kickapoo Agency was established in 1855 for the Kickapoo Indians and some Pottawatomi who lived with the Kickapoo. 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 ...
According to Indian agent John W. Williamson of the Genoa Agency on the Pawnee Reservation, who accompanied the Pawnee hunting party, "On the 2d [in fact the 3d [4]: 147 ] day of July, 1873, the Indians, to the number of 700, left Genoa for the hunting grounds. Of this number 350 were men, the balance women and children."