History and stories of Nebraska . Map Showing Country Known to the;Omaha (Shaded Area) Ponca tribe, claiming the country westward along thatriver and the streams flowing into it. These three tribes,Otoe, Omaha and Ponca were closely related and spokelanguages much alike. Their traditions tell that theycame from the southeast up the Missouri and had been inthis region only a few hundred years. All three belongedto the great Sioux family of Indians and were relatives of 226 NEBRASKA INDIANS 227 the Sioux nation living northwest of them. The Otoeand Omaha tribes numbered about 3,000 each and theP
History and stories of Nebraska . Map Showing Country Known to the;Omaha (Shaded Area) Ponca tribe, claiming the country westward along thatriver and the streams flowing into it. These three tribes,Otoe, Omaha and Ponca were closely related and spokelanguages much alike. Their traditions tell that theycame from the southeast up the Missouri and had been inthis region only a few hundred years. All three belongedto the great Sioux family of Indians and were relatives of 226 NEBRASKA INDIANS 227 the Sioux nation living northwest of them. The Otoeand Omaha tribes numbered about 3,000 each and thePonca between 1,000 and 2,000. The Pawnee.— Just west of the country claimed bythe Otoe and Omaha tribes lived the Pawnee nation. Itsprincipal villages were in the valleys of the Platte, Loup. The Buffalo. Hunt. {From Thwaitess Early Western Travels. ArihurH. Clark Co., Cleveland, Ohio.) and Republican rivers. It numbered in the early yearsabout 10,000 people and spoke a language entirely differentfrom that of any other Nebraska tribe. The Sioux.—? The Sioux nation roamed the whole coun-try north and west of the regions claimed by the Otoe,Omaha, Ponca and Pawnee tribes. In what is now Nebraskait numbered from 10,000 to 20,000 people. It had no per-manent villages, but followed the buffalo herds. About thetime the first white men came, the Sioux were driving theCrows westward into the Rocky Mountains. 228 A SHORT HISTORY OF NEBRASKA The Cheyenne and Arapahoe.— Cheyenne and vVrapa-hoe tribes, numbering about 3,000 persons, claimed theupper valleys of the North and South Plattes and huntedthe western plains in common with the Sioux. Theybelonged to the great Algonquin family which lived inCanada and New England, and which had been the firstIndians met by the Pilgrims wh
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