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Omaha Tribe

Omaha Tribe. By: Kayla .S & Kiara Lee . History. Means “those going against the wind or current” Started off in the mouth of Missouri River then migrated up till they reached the Big Sioux River.

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Omaha Tribe

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  1. Omaha Tribe By: Kayla .S & Kiara Lee

  2. History • Means “those going against the wind or current” • Started off in the mouth of Missouri River then migrated up till they reached the Big Sioux River. • They then met white settlers who spread smallpox to them killing over more than half their population.

  3. Language and Culture • Omaha Indians spoke Omaha-Ponca which originated from the Ponca Indians • They lived in Teepees in case of travel and raids. • They herded buffalos and harvested corn, beans and squash • In the winter, there was dried food, fish and small game

  4. Clothing • Men wore moccasins on their feet, buckskin shirts and breechcloths with leather legging. Women wore long deer skin dresses, warrior decorated with porcupine quills, beadwork, and tribal designs. They also either had shaved head or Mohawks. Omaha Indians told many legends and fairy tales based on the culture, one of which you will read about later

  5. Major events • In 1802, small pox spread, wiping out more than half the tribe • Treaty of Prairie du Chien, by the treaty of Washington D.C, March 16, 1834, ceded all their lands west of the Missouri and South of the running west • After the Louisiana Purchase, it was hard for them to live there due to trading of the land

  6. Major Events cont. • In 1814, Big Elk made an illegal treaty allowing a large number of Mormons to settle on Omaha land. • Although the U.S and others bullied the tribe (1819-1879) they never took arms against the U.S. In fact several fought with them for the Union during the Civil War

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  9. Bibliography Fontenelle, Henry, "History of Omaha Indians" (1885). Transactions and Reports, Nebraska State Historical Society. Paper 33. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nebhisttrans/33 Laura Redish and Orrin Lewis, Native Languages of the Americas. A nonprofit educational organization working to preserve and protect Native American languages and culture, first created in 1998 and last updated in 2011. Judith A. Boughter, Betraying the Omaha Nation, 1790-1916, University of Oklahoma Press, 1998, pp. 61-62

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