Omaha

Omaha Indians

By Victoria Perry

  • First Omaha village

    First Omaha village west of the Missouri established on Bow Creek in present Cedar County, Nebraska

  • Lewis and Clark

    Lewis and Clark witnessed the Whe'wahchee or dance of thanksgiving, wich was the first pow wow ever

  • Friendship with U.S.

    Treaty of friendship with U.S.

  • Treaty of Prairie du Chien

    the tribes agreed to land cession of three large tracts of land: two strips of land 20 miles wide each on either side of the boundary established by the first Treaty of Prairie du Chien, extending from the Mississippi River to the Des Moines River

  • Treaty of 1854

    ceded to the all their lands west of the Missouri River to the U.S. government, retaining their lands north of this line for a reservation

  • Helping the U.S.

    Helping the U.S.
    they fought for the Union during the American Civil War, as well as each subsequent war through today.

  • Treaty of 1865

    sold part of their reservation to the United States for the use of the Winnebago Indians.

  • Relying on the government

    Relying on the government
    they had to rely increasingly upon their cash annuities and supplies from the United States Government and adaptation to subsistence agriculture becuase the buffalo were disappearing from the plains