Native American tribes in Nebraska

The mythology of Native American culture is very eclectic and diverse, containing an array of stories about a vast number of cultural heroes, tricksters, primordial deities, and cosmic events. The Quileute people, members of a remote tribe inhabiting the Northwestern area of Washington state known as La Push, possess a modest amount of stories about their people. Though many of these stories have been forgotten, the Quileute people have preserved their creation myth, offering an elaborate…

In 1865, there were nearly quarter of a million Indians living in the western half of the country. Cherokee were forced out, and by 1870s other tribes ended up destroyed or beaten into submission: Hopi, Zuni, Navajo, Apache, Chinook, and Shasta to name a few. California Indians fell to disease whites brought in during gold rush era 1849. Majority of Indians, including Sioux, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Crow, Arapaho, Pawnee etc. lived in small groups 3-5 hundred on the Great Plains, depended on…

“Times have changed and they’ve changed in this case for the better”, by Ann Gutmann. This quote reflects the individual’s experiences being compared between a Native American female and an African American female. Charlotte Forten was an African-American girl that attended a private school in New England. Mary Brave Bird, a Native American woman, raised by her grandparents on a South Dakota reservation. As an activist, she endured and encountered some violent events and was able to survive…

by Pawnee tribesmen near the fork of the North and South Platte Rivers in western Nebraska” (“William Henry Ashley”). The term “Pawnee” is a Sioux word meaning horn, which refers to the “distinctive hairstyle of the Pawnee warriors, who coated their hair with thick grease and paint so that it stood up and curved like a horn” (“Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes” 1). Pawnee was thought of as a highly spiritual tribe that wasn’t hostile. They viewed the sun and the stars as god like and used…

most important Lakota leaders of the nineteenth century. Red Cloud was a Native American war leader who became an important part of history for his role in fiercely defending his peoples land against the U.S. government Chief Red Cloud was Chief of the Oglala Lakota tribe. Chief Red Cloud was Born in Nebraska in 1822, the Lakota chief Red Cloud was an important figure in the 19th century land battle between Native Americans and the U.S. government. He successfully resisted developments of the…

in or from the expansion of the United States. This includes the Louisiana Purchase, the Missouri Compromise, the Indian Removal Act, the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. However, this was not the first time in the history the United States…

dare you try to hog all the continent!” by Rocky Mountain News, 1866. The transcontinental railroad ran through the continent like a steel horse. The railroad was a massive event that happened in American history, and encounter and exchange occurred in this situation. For Chinese immigrants and Native Americans the transcontinental railroad was a series of tragic encounters. However, the transcontinental railroad allowed goods and services to be exchanged across the United States allowing great…

animals, were able to chart and map the new land, and seek help from Sacagawea and make peace with the Native Americans. The Lewis and Clark expedition was an important part of history that proved to be very successful. Lewis and Clark discovered many new species of interesting plants…

Indians who were natives here called it, Ioway, was once like. Foster states that the state of Iowa was once a vast prairie, but today less than 0.1 percent of that prairie remains. He states that Americans typically associate the buffalo with the great plains, rather than thinking of them once being in the tallgrass prairie that once covered Iowa and Illinois. Foster, being a member of the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, explains just how big of a role the buffalo played to the tribes here…

more than a century American Indians have had to undergo several instances of culture change. In the 1800’s when colonization consistently terrorized American Indians, this was the beginning of loss greater than one can imagine. Us history is able to be told today because it is founded and supported by a language continuum. Language can be a barrier but it can also have the power to tell time and reconnect us to our ancestral beings. Currently, there are American Indian tribes that have…