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Omaha people

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The Omaha are a federally recognized Midwestern Native American tribe who reside on the Omaha Reservation in northeastern Nebraska and western Iowa, United States. [1]

102 relations: Alice Cunningham Fletcher, American bison, American Civil War, Archaeology, Arikara, Arkansas, Bancroft, Nebraska, Bellevue, Nebraska, Big Elk, Big Sioux River, Blackbird (Omaha leader), Blackbird Bend, Bracer, Bureau of American Ethnology, Burt County, Nebraska, Cedar County, Nebraska, Cheyenne River, Christianity, Clan, Coureur des bois, Cuming County, Nebraska, Dakota County, Nebraska, Dhegihan languages, Earth house, English language, Federal government of the United States, Fourth Treaty of Prairie du Chien, France, Francis La Flesche, Francis M. Cayou, Fur trade, Gens, Guillaume Delisle, Harvard University, Hiram Chase, Homer, Nebraska, Indian agent, Iowa, Iroquois, Jeremiah Bitsui, Joseph LaFlesche, Kaw people, Kinship, Lewis and Clark Expedition, Library of Congress, Logan Fontenelle, Louisiana Purchase, Macy, Nebraska, Midwestern United States, Missouri River, ..., Monona County, Iowa, Mormons, Multiracial, Native American Public Telecommunications, Native Americans in the United States, Nebraska, Nebraska Educational Telecommunications, Ohio River, Omaha people, Omaha Reservation, Omaha, Nebraska, Omaha–Ponca language, Osage Nation, Otoe, Papillion Creek, Patrilineality, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Pender, Nebraska, Peter A. Sarpy, Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, Platte River, Ponca, Populus sect. Aigeiros, Pow wow, Quakers, Quapaw, Rodney A. Grant, Role model, Rosalie, Nebraska, Sacred, Silver, Siouan languages, Sioux City, Iowa, Smallpox, South Dakota, Spain, Susan La Flesche Picotte, Susette La Flesche, Thomas L. Sloan, Thurston County, Nebraska, Tipi, Trapping, Tribe (Native American), Ulysses S. Grant, Union (American Civil War), United States, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Wabash River, Walthill, Nebraska, Winnebago, Nebraska, World Digital Library, 2000 United States Census. Expand index (52 more) »

Alice Cunningham Fletcher

Alice Cunningham Fletcher (March 15, 1838 in HavanaApril 6, 1923 in Washington, D.C.) was an American ethnologist, anthropologist, and social scientist who studied and documented American Indian culture.

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American bison

The American bison or simply bison (Bison bison), also commonly known as the American buffalo or simply buffalo, is a North American species of bison that once roamed the grasslands of North America in massive herds.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Archaeology

Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of humanactivity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Arikara

Arikara, also known as Sahnish, Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation. (Retrieved Sep 29, 2011) Arikaree or Ree, are a tribe of Native Americans in North Dakota.

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Arkansas

Arkansas is a state in the southeastern region of the United States, home to over 3 million people as of 2017.

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Bancroft, Nebraska

Bancroft is a village in Cuming County, Nebraska, United States.

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Bellevue, Nebraska

Bellevue (French for "beautiful view") is a city in Sarpy County, Nebraska, United States and a southern suburb of Omaha.

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Big Elk

Big Elk, also known as Ontopanga (1770–1846/1853), was a principal chief of the Omaha tribe for many years on the upper Missouri River.

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Big Sioux River

The Big Sioux River is a tributary of the Missouri River, 419 miles (674 km) long,U.S. Geological Survey.

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Blackbird (Omaha leader)

Chief Blackbird (Wash-ing-guh Sah-ba) (ca. 1750 – 1800) was the leader of the Omaha Native American Indian tribe who commanded the trade routes used by Spanish, French, British and later American traders until the late 18th century.

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Blackbird Bend

Blackbird Bend is the name for areas in western Iowa along the Missouri River in Monona County, Iowa that have been claimed by the Omaha tribe of Nebraska and Iowa near Onawa, Iowa.

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Bracer

A bracer (or arm-guard) is a strap or sheath, commonly made of leather, stone, or plastic that covers the inside of an archer's arm to protect it while shooting.

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Bureau of American Ethnology

The Bureau of American Ethnology (or BAE, originally, Bureau of Ethnology) was established in 1879 by an act of Congress for the purpose of transferring archives, records and materials relating to the Indians of North America from the Interior Department to the Smithsonian Institution.

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Burt County, Nebraska

Burt County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska.

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Cedar County, Nebraska

Cedar County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska.

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Cheyenne River

The Cheyenne River (Wakpá Wašté; "Good River"), also written Chyone, referring to the Cheyenne people who once lived there, is a tributary of the Missouri River in the U.S. states of Wyoming and South Dakota.

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Christianity

ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.

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Clan

A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent.

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Coureur des bois

A coureur des bois or coureur de bois ("runner of the woods"; plural: coureurs de bois) was an independent entrepreneurial French-Canadian trader who traveled in New France and the interior of North America.

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Cuming County, Nebraska

Cuming County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska.

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Dakota County, Nebraska

Dakota County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska.

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Dhegihan languages

The Dhegihan languages are a group of Siouan languages that include Kansa–Osage, Omaha–Ponca, and Quapaw.

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Earth house

An earth house (also known as an earth berm, an earth sheltered home, or an eco-house) is an architectural style characterized by the use of natural terrain to help form the walls of a house.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Federal government of the United States

The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government) is the national government of the United States, a constitutional republic in North America, composed of 50 states, one district, Washington, D.C. (the nation's capital), and several territories.

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Fourth Treaty of Prairie du Chien

The fourth Treaty of Prairie du Chien was negotiated between the United States and the Sac and Fox, the Mdewakanton, Wahpekute, Wahpeton and Sisiton Sioux, Omaha, Ioway, Otoe and Missouria tribes.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Francis La Flesche

Francis La Flesche (Omaha, 1857–1932) was the first professional Native American ethnologist; he worked with the Smithsonian Institution.

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Francis M. Cayou

Francis Molly "Frank" Cayou (March 7, 1878 – May 7, 1948) an American football player and coach of football and basketball.

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Fur trade

The fur trade is a worldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal fur.

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Gens

In ancient Rome, a gens, plural gentes, was a family consisting of all those individuals who shared the same nomen and claimed descent from a common ancestor.

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Guillaume Delisle

Guillaume Delisle, also spelled Guillaume de l'Isle, (28 February 1675, Paris – 25 January 1726, Paris) was a French cartographer known for his popular and accurate maps of Europe and the newly explored Americas.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Hiram Chase

Hiram Chase (Hiram John Hatu Mi Chase) (September 9, 1861 – December 3, 1928), was one of the first Native American Lawyers to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court, and with his partner Thomas L. Sloan, formed the first Native American law firm in the United States.

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Homer, Nebraska

Homer is a village in Dakota County, Nebraska, United States.

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Indian agent

In United States history, an Indian agent was an individual authorized to interact with Native American tribes on behalf of the U.S. government.

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Iowa

Iowa is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri and Big Sioux rivers to the west.

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Iroquois

The Iroquois or Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse) are a historically powerful northeast Native American confederacy.

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Jeremiah Bitsui

Jeremiah Bitsui is a Native American actor, best known for his portrayal of Victor in the AMC series Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.

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Joseph LaFlesche

Joseph LaFlesche, also known as E-sta-mah-za or Iron Eye (1822–1888), was the last recognized head chief of the Omaha tribe of Native Americans who was selected according to the traditional tribal rituals.

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Kaw people

The Kaw Nation (or Kanza, or Kansa) are a federally recognized Native American tribe in Oklahoma and parts of Kansas.

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Kinship

In anthropology, kinship is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of all humans in all societies, although its exact meanings even within this discipline are often debated.

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Lewis and Clark Expedition

The Lewis and Clark Expedition from May 1804 to September 1806, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the first American expedition to cross the western portion of the United States.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

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Logan Fontenelle

Logan Fontenelle (May 6, 1825 – July 16, 1855), also known as Shon-ga-ska (White Horse), was a trader of Omaha and French ancestry, who served for years as an interpreter to the US Indian agent at the Bellevue Agency in Nebraska.

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Louisiana Purchase

The Louisiana Purchase (Vente de la Louisiane "Sale of Louisiana") was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory (828,000 square miles or 2.14 million km²) by the United States from France in 1803.

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Macy, Nebraska

Macy is a census-designated place (CDP) in Thurston County, Nebraska, United States.

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Midwestern United States

The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the American Midwest, Middle West, or simply the Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau (also known as "Region 2").

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Missouri River

The Missouri River is the longest river in North America.

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Monona County, Iowa

Monona County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa.

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Mormons

Mormons are a religious and cultural group related to Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement of Restorationist Christianity, initiated by Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s.

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Multiracial

Multiracial is defined as made up of or relating to people of many races.

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Native American Public Telecommunications

Native American Public Telecommunications is a branch of the CPB or Corporation for Public Broadcast.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.

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Nebraska

Nebraska is a state that lies in both the Great Plains and the Midwestern United States.

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Nebraska Educational Telecommunications

Nebraska Educational Telecommunications (NET) is a state network of public radio and television stations in the U.S. state of Nebraska and is based in Lincoln.

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Ohio River

The Ohio River, which streams westward from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River in the United States.

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Omaha people

The Omaha are a federally recognized Midwestern Native American tribe who reside on the Omaha Reservation in northeastern Nebraska and western Iowa, United States.

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Omaha Reservation

The Omaha Reservation of the federally recognized Omaha tribe is located mostly in Thurston County, Nebraska, with sections in neighboring Cuming and Burt counties, in addition to Monona County in Iowa.

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Omaha, Nebraska

Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County.

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Omaha–Ponca language

Omaha–Ponca is a Siouan language spoken by the Omaha (Umoⁿhoⁿ) people of Nebraska and the Ponca (Paⁿka) people of Oklahoma and Nebraska.

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Osage Nation

The Osage Nation (Osage: Ni-u-kon-ska, "People of the Middle Waters") is a Midwestern Native American tribe of the Great Plains who historically dominated much of present-day Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, and Oklahoma.

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Otoe

The Otoe are a Native American people of the Midwestern United States.

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Papillion Creek

Papillion Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Patrilineality

Patrilineality, also known as the male line, the spear side or agnatic kinship, is a common kinship system in which an individual's family membership derives from and is recorded through his or her father's lineage.

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Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is a museum affiliated with Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Pender, Nebraska

Pender is a village in Thurston County, Nebraska, United States.

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Peter A. Sarpy

Peter Abadie Sarpy (1805–1865) was the French-American owner and operator of several fur trading posts, essential to the development of the Nebraska Territory, and a thriving ferry business.

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Pierre-Charles Le Sueur

Pierre-Charles Le Sueur (c. 1657, Artois, France – 17 July 1704, Havana, Cuba) was a French fur trader and explorer in North America, recognized as the first known European to explore the Minnesota River valley.

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Platte River

The Platte River is a major river in the state of Nebraska and is about long.

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Ponca

The Ponca (Páⁿka iyé: Páⁿka or Ppáⁿkka pronounced) are a Midwestern Native American tribe of the Dhegihan branch of the Siouan language group.

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Populus sect. Aigeiros

Populus section Aigeiros is a section of three species in the genus Populus, the poplars.

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Pow wow

A pow wow (also powwow or pow-wow) is a social gathering held by many different Native American communities.

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Quakers

Quakers (or Friends) are members of a historically Christian group of religious movements formally known as the Religious Society of Friends or Friends Church.

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Quapaw

The Quapaw (or Arkansas and Ugahxpa) people are a tribe of Native Americans that coalesced in the Midwest and Ohio Valley.

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Rodney A. Grant

Rodney Arnold Grant (born March 9, 1959) is an American actor.

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Role model

A role model is a person whose behavior, example, or success is or can be emulated by others, especially by younger people.

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Rosalie, Nebraska

Rosalie is a village in Thurston County, Nebraska, United States, within the boundaries of the Omaha Indian Reservation.

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Sacred

Sacred means revered due to sanctity and is generally the state of being perceived by religious individuals as associated with divinity and considered worthy of spiritual respect or devotion; or inspiring awe or reverence among believers.

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Silver

Silver is a chemical element with symbol Ag (from the Latin argentum, derived from the Proto-Indo-European ''h₂erǵ'': "shiny" or "white") and atomic number 47.

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Siouan languages

Siouan or Siouan–Catawban is a language family of North America that is located primarily in the Great Plains, Ohio and Mississippi valleys and southeastern North America with a few outlier languages in the east.

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Sioux City, Iowa

Sioux City is a city in Woodbury and Plymouth counties in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Iowa.

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Smallpox

Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by one of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minor.

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South Dakota

South Dakota is a U.S. state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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Susan La Flesche Picotte

Susan LaFlesche Picotte (June 17, 1865 – September 18, 1915) was an Omaha Native American doctor and reformer in the late 19th century.

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Susette La Flesche

Susette La Flesche, (later Susette LaFlesche Tibbles) also called Inshata Theumba (Bright Eyes) (1854–1903), was a well-known Native American writer, lecturer, interpreter and artist of the Omaha tribe in Nebraska.

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Thomas L. Sloan

Thomas L. Sloan (1863–1940) was the first Native American lawyer to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court, and with his partner Hiram Chase, formed the first Native American law firm in the United States.

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Thurston County, Nebraska

Thurston County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska.

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Tipi

A tipi (also teepee) is a cone-shaped tent, traditionally made of animal skins upon wooden poles.

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Trapping

Animal trapping, or simply trapping, is the use of a device to remotely catch an animal.

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Tribe (Native American)

In the United States, an Indian tribe, Native American tribe, tribal nation or similar concept is any extant or historical clan, tribe, band, nation, or other group or community of Indigenous peoples in the United States.

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Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American soldier and statesman who served as Commanding General of the Army and the 18th President of the United States, the highest positions in the military and the government of the United States.

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Union (American Civil War)

During the American Civil War (1861–1865), the Union, also known as the North, referred to the United States of America and specifically to the national government of President Abraham Lincoln and the 20 free states, as well as 4 border and slave states (some with split governments and troops sent both north and south) that supported it.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University of Nebraska–Lincoln

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln, often referred to as Nebraska, UNL or NU, is a public research university in the city of Lincoln, in the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States.

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Wabash River

The Wabash River (French: Ouabache) is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Walthill, Nebraska

Walthill is a village in Thurston County, Nebraska, United States, within the Omaha Reservation.

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Winnebago, Nebraska

Winnebago is a village in Thurston County, Nebraska, United States.

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World Digital Library

The World Digital Library (WDL) is an international digital library operated by UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress.

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2000 United States Census

The Twenty-second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2% over the 248,709,873 people enumerated during the 1990 Census.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha_people

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