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He did not receive a patent on his 320 acres (1.3 km 2) of land until 1860. [4] It was in what is today Richardson County, Nebraska. [13] In doing so, he became the first settler of Nebraska's newly designated Half-Breed Tract. A town named after him was established in that tract while Barada ran a fur-trading post there. [13]
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]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the reservation has a total area of 177.66 square miles (460.1 km 2), of which 176.55 square miles (457.3 km 2) is land and 1.11 square miles (2.9 km 2) is water. The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska held an additional 0.179 square miles (115 acres; 0.46 km 2) of off-reservation trust land as of 2020. [1]
A land-grant university (also called land-grant college or land-grant institution) is an institution of higher education in the United States designated by a state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890, [8] or a beneficiary under the Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994. [9]
As of 2008, Keya Paha County was the most Republican of all the counties in Nebraska, with 82.7% of its 707 registered voters registered as Republicans. [15] The last Democratic presidential candidate to win the county was Woodrow Wilson in 1916. [16] In 1932, it was one of only two counties in the state not to vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Checkerboarding may make public land inaccessible when it is surrounded by privately owned land. [8] In 2021, hunters in Wyoming were charged with trespassing on private land they never actually set foot on when they crossed between two parcels of public land at the corner where they touched. [9] Landowners allege their airspace was violated.
The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission (NGPC) is the State of Nebraska's State agency charged with stewardship of the state's fish, wildlife, state park, and outdoor recreation resources. The agency is led by a governor -appointed member commission consisting of 9 commissioners which directs agency management.
The Samuel R. McKelvie National Forest is a United States National Forest in the north-central Sandhills region of the U.S. state of Nebraska.The area of the national forest is 116,079 acres (181.373 sq mi).