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	Encyclopedia: Omaha, Nebraska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Omaha was chosen as the eastern terminus of America's first transcontinental railroad in 1862 with the passage of the Pacific Railroad Act.
		Omaha's growth was accelerated in the 1880s by the rapid development of the meatpacking industry in South Omaha; in the 1880s, Omaha was the fastest-growing city in the United States.
		Omaha's Rosenblatt Stadium is home to the Omaha Royals minor-league baseball team (the AAA affiliate of the Kansas City Royals) and since 1950, has hosted the annual NCAA College World Series men's baseball tournament in mid-June.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Omaha,-Nebraska (8967 words)

	Omaha Indian Tribe - American Indian Nations
		The Omaha tribe began as a larger woodland tribe comprised of both the Omaha and Quapaw tribes.
		The Quapaw settled in what is now Arkansas and the Omaha tribe, known as "those going against the wind or current" settled near the Missouri river in what is now northwestern Iowa.
		The Omaha were believed to have ranged from the Cheyenne River in South Dakota to the Platte River in Nebraska.
	www.comanchelodge.com /nations/omaha-tribe.html (392 words)

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		The Tribe does not question that the individual defendants who occupied trust land are entitled to recover the value of the improvements from the United States.
		Omaha Indian Tribe, 442 U.S. at 666-668, 678); the State seeks review of the constitutionality of the application of Section 194 to its claims only in the event that a grant of the Tribe's petition puts the State at risk that the Court will "effectively overrule" Wilson on this point (88-1636 Pet.
		Omaha Indian Tribe, 442 U.S. at 660 n.7 (citations omitted): Simply stated, when a river which forms a boundary between two parcels of land moves by processes of erosion and accretion, the boundary follows the movements of the river.
	www.usdoj.gov /osg/briefs/1988/sg880082.txt (3838 words)

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		Continuous absence from the jurisdictional boundaries of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska for a period of five years shall operate to terminate membership in the tribe, unless the tribal council shall, upon notification and application from the non-resident member within said five-year period, extend the membership of such individual.
		All recognized members of the Omaha Tribe, twenty-one years of age and over, and who have maintained continuous residence within the reservation for a period of six months immediately prior to the date of election, shall be qualified voters.
		Tribal lands of the Omaha Tribe and all lands which may hereafter be acquired by the Omaha Tribe or by the United States in trust for the Omaha Tribe shall be held as tribal lands, and no part of such lands shall be mortgaged or sold.
	thorpe.ou.edu /IRA/omahacons.html (3142 words)

	OMAHA TRIBE OF NEBRASKA community profile
		The Omaha Tribe was originally designated reservation lands along the Missouri River recognized in a treaty with the United States signed on March 16, 1854.
		The Omaha Reservation is located in the northeastern corner of Nebraska, 26 miles southeast of Sioux City, Iowa and seventy miles north of Omaha, Nebraska on state highways 75 and 77.
		The Omaha Tribe maintains the right and responsibility to provide environmental authority in compliance with Tribal and Federal law for protection of the land and resources within the exterior boundaries of the reservation through code development and regulatory procedures.
	www.mnisose.org /profiles/omaha.htm (1479 words)

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		OMAHA TRIBE This was the homeland of the Omaha Tribe long before white settlers came to the Great Plains.
		By 1750, the Omaha occupied a large region in northeastern Nebraska and northwestern Iowa.
		The name "Omaha" means "those going against the wind or current" and may refer to a traditional migration up the Missouri River by the ancestors of the present tribe.
	www.panesu.org /subject/markers/Omaha-Tribe (196 words)

	AllRefer.com - Omaha, indigenous people of North America (North American Indigenous Peoples) - Encyclopedia
		The Omaha moved farther up the Missouri River, but after an outbreak (1802) of smallpox, which considerably reduced their population, they moved to NE Nebraska.
		A typical tribe of the Plains area, they lived in earth lodges in the winter and tepees in the summer.
		In 1854 the Omaha ceded all their lands W of the Missouri River to the United States and moved to Dakota co., Nebr. In 1865 they sold part of their reservation to the United States for the use of the Winnebago.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/O/OmahaInd.html (353 words)

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		As a matter of background, the Omaha Tribe is a federally recognized Indian Tribe organized pursuant to the Indian Reorganization Act, under a Constitution and Bylaws ratified by the members of the Tribe on February 15, 1936 and approved by the Secretary of the Interior on March 30, 1936.
		Today, the Omaha Tribe operates an ATF licensed cigarette manufacturing plant located on land in Nebraska held in trust by the United States for the benefit of the Tribe within the exterior boundaries of the Omaha Indian Reservation.
		However, the Omaha believe the legislation could further encourage and recognize tribal sovereignty (1) by allowing tribes to create their own retail licensing requirements apart from state intervention; and (2) by creating an Indian provision granting jurisdiction for enforcement of the legislation.
	www.senate.gov /~scia/1998hrgs/0212_l~1.htm (1954 words)

	FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
		Pursuant to an 1854 treaty, the reservation of the Omaha Indian Tribe (Tribe) was established in the Territory of Nebraska on the west bank of the Missouri River, with the eastern boundary being fixed as the center of the river's main channel.
		Omaha Indians, 253 U.S. The retained lands proved unsatisfactory to the Tribe, and it exercised its option under the treaty to exchange those lands for a tract of 300,000 acres to be designated by the President and acceptable to the Tribe.
		In the present case, of course, the area at issue was never conveyed away by the United States or by the Tribe and is claimed by the United States and the Tribe to remain as part of the reservation established as the result of the treaty of 1854.
	caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /scripts/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=us&vol=442&page=653 (8456 words)

	ICT [2001/05/23] Ruling expected soon in Omaha-Winnebago dispute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Omaha Tribe of Nebraska filed suit against the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska in an attempt to oust the tribe from land it allowed a then-homeless Winnebago Tribe to inhabit on its northeastern Nebraska reservation.
		There is no dispute that the U.S. government entered into a treaty with the Omaha Tribe in 1865 for sale of the land on behalf of the Winnebago who had been wandering on the plains, cold and starving after being removed from their ancestral home in Wisconsin.
		The Winnebago Tribe is a sovereign nation and immune from being sued, but is an indispensable party in the dispute between the Omahas and the federal government because its members live on the disputed land.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1841 (601 words)

	History of Omaha Indian tribe
		The Omaha Indian nation were the inhabitants of a large territory to the west of the Missouri river, between the Platte and the Niabrara Rivers.
		The Omaha lived in tipis during the summer period when they were hunting and in earthen lodges over the winter.
		In 1854 the Omaha tribe gave most of it’s hunting grounds in the eastern Nebraska rea to the United States Government.
	az.essortment.com /omahaindianshi_rjom.htm (614 words)

	ICT [2001/02/21] Omaha tribe uses 1864 treaty as leverage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska asking for the return of the land the Winnebago tribe calls home.
		Omaha tribal officials presented several options for the hospital, including five sites, but Black Hawk said one of the key factors in determining where the hospital would be located was use of an existing treatment center which helped provide sufficient patient numbers to qualify the two reservations for priority listing for a new facility.
		For the Omahas, the hospital location is the latest in a 120-year history of federal decisions that favored the Winnebagos while slighting the larger and more established tribe.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1884 (961 words)

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		Whereas, the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska is a recognized Indian tribe organized under a constitution and by-laws ratified by the tribe on February 15, 1936, and approved by the Secretary of the Interior on March 30, 1936, pursuant to section 16 of the act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat.
		The officers of the Tribe shall maintain accurate and complete public accounts of the financial affairs of the Tribe, which shall clearly show all credits, debts, pledges, and assignments, and shall furnish an annual balance sheet and report of the financial affairs of the Tribe to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
		Submitted by the Secretary of the Interior for ratification by the Omaha Tribe of the Omaha Reservation in Nebraska in a popular referendum to be held on August 22, 1936.
	thorpe.ou.edu /IRA/omahachrtr.html (981 words)

	STATEWIDE Perspective-Omaha Tribe-Buffalo Hunt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Omaha Tribe Walks in the Path of their Ancestors
		Mark Awakuni-Swetland is an anthropologist and an adopted member of the Omaha tribe.
		In 1876 the Omaha tribe hunted buffalo to survive.
	net.unl.edu /~swi/pers/buffalohunt.html (1510 words)

	Omaha Indian Tribe History
		The primitive dwellings of the Omaha were chiefly lodges of earth, more rarely of bark or mats, and skin tents.
		The population of the Omaha since their recovery from the great loss by smallpox in 1802, when they were reduced to about 300, has greatly increased.
		In 1906 the population of the tribe was 1,228.
	www.accessgenealogy.com /native/tribes/omaha/omahahist.htm (505 words)

	IMLS Library and Museum Collaboration Grant
		Omaha culture is important to the history of Plains peoples because the Omaha are one of the few Plains tribes who continued an earthlodge/horticultural adaptation to the Plains even after horses were introduced.
		Concerned about the splintering of the tribe, Omaha and Ponca elders met sometime during the mid 1600s to discuss the future of their peoples.
		At the request of the tribe, UNSM maintains Omaha tribal sacred objects, and an extensive storyboard on the Omaha is exhibited in Morrill Hall.
	www.unl.edu /Price/grants/omaha.html (7377 words)

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		The Omaha were "tenacious legal warriors" who, according to the author, "have achieved a cultural and economic renaissance in the 1980s and 1990s that can be traced in large part to their legal perseverance over the last fifty years" (p.
		In 1970 the tribe was once again under the jurisdiction of the federal government and, importantly, on the way to the control of its own law enforcement operations.
		In the end, the tribe agreed upon educational, economic and social improvement projects to be funded by the awards, efforts that the author asserts almost certainly would not have been possible without the ICC actions.
	www.bsos.umd.edu /gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/scherer.htm (1467 words)

	The Omaha Indians in Nebraska
		In 1854 the Omaha tribe gave way to the pressure of incoming white settlers and sold the majority of the land they held to the U.S. government.
		Today, the Omaha Reservation is located in the northeastern corner of Nebraska on 31,148 acres.
		The earth clan was responsible for ceremonies of war and food, and the sky clan was responsible for ceremonies relating to the supernatural.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/es/ne/omaha_1 (159 words)

	Native American Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His Ph.D. concentrated on Native language ideology of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska.
		Awakuni-Swetland developed relations with members of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska as a youth in the 1960's that have resulted in many on-going personal and professional collaborative activities related to Omaha language and culture.
		His role and responsibilities in the Omaha community are impacted by his connections to several families, as well as his membership in the Black Shoulder Buffalo Clan, Omaha Tia-Piah Society, and as a Hethushka dancer.
	www.unl.edu /unlies/native/faculty.htm (819 words)

	Canku Ota - December 13, 2003 - Omaha language classes keep culture alive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His Omaha classes are meant to revive the culture of the tribe through language, an oral tradition slowly becoming silent as its native speakers pass away.
		Waite, whose ancestors were part of the Ogallala and Sioux tribes, said she was looking for a connection to the American Indian community when she signed up for the Omaha classes.
		When the students spoke in Omaha, it was one of the first times Waite said she felt accepted.
	www.turtletrack.org /Issues03/Co12132003/CO_12132003_OmahaLanguage.htm (1113 words)

	Omaha Tribe of Nebraska Omaha Song (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The piece was commissioned by the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska, Lied Center for the Performing Arts, and Kennedy Center Partners in Education as part of Continental Harmony, the national community-based composer residency program of American Composers Forum, St. Paul, MN.
		For hundreds of years, the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska has lived along what is now the Lewis and Clark Historic Trail.
		The tribe has a rich musical heritage - one that is documented in extensive transcriptions of 19th century music and continually updated by singers working in a living tradition.
	www.omahatribeofnebraska.com /omahamusic.html (745 words)

	The Omaha & Ponca Tribes Emerge in Nebraska
		These language facts and the historical stories told within the tribes suggest that all of these groups were part of one tribe that once lived near the mouth of the Ohio River.
		The name "Omaha" is generally interpreted to mean, "those going against the wind or current." This oral tradition has it that one group moved downstream from the Ohio and became known as the Quapaw.
		The Omaha and Ponca built their lodges with walls about eight feet high and a central opening in the roof to allow smoke to escape and light to enter.
	www.nebraskastudies.org /0300/stories/0301_0104.html (477 words)

	Omaha - Information, Maps, Facts, What to do, Links, and much more.
		Omaha is the name of some places in the United States
		Omaha Beach was the name given to one of the landing sites used by Allied forces in the Normandy Landings of 6th June 1944
		Omaha hold'em is a class of poker games.
	www.forwardingsite.com /places/omaha.html (111 words)

	Ancestral Bones: Reinterpreting the Past of the Omaha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		New archaeological research of two Omaha gravesites--one used before 1800 and one maintained after--has shed light on the life of the tribe during this period.
		Within the few decades after the Omaha settled in 1775 at Big Village or Ton won tonga, (what is now northeastern Nebraska near the town of Homer), the community changed dramatically--particularly in its economic roles--and the bones of its people offer clues to how and why.
		The French trader Zenon Trudeau wrote in 1794 that “The village of the Omaha would be a propitious place to establish a post for merchandise and provisions to supply the trade on the Upper Missouri.
	www.neh.fed.us /news/humanities/2002-11/ancestralbones.html (1457 words)

	Logan Fontenelle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Logan Fontenelle, well-known chief of the Omaha tribe, was born at Fort Atkinson in l825.
		Although he was not a chief by blood, he was elected principal chief of the tribe in 1853 at the time that the transfer of the tribe to its northeast Nebraska reservation was being negotiated.
		Although there is controversy over his exact death date, Logan Fontenelle was killed in a skirmish with the Sioux while leading Omaha Indians on a hunt on Beaver Creek in present-day Boone County in the summer of 1855.
	www.nde.state.ne.us /SS/notables/fontenelle.html (220 words)

	PONCA - Online Information article about PONCA
		Omaha tribe, with whom they lived near the Red See also:
		They were driven westward by the Dakotas, and halted on the Ponca river, Dakota.
		march thither and in their new quarters, the tribe's See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /POL_PRE/PONCA.html (241 words)

	Omaha Indian Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The multiformat ethnographic field collection contains 44 wax cylinder recordings collected by Francis La Flesche and Alice Cunningham Fletcher between 1895 and 1897, 323 songs and speeches from the 1983 Omaha harvest celebration pow-wow, and 25 songs and speeches from the 1985 Hethu'shka Society concert at the Library of Congress.
		Segments from interviews with members of the Omaha tribe conducted in 1983 and 1999 provide contextual information for the songs and speeches included in the collection.
		Supplementing the collection are fl-and-white and color photographs taken during the 1983 pow-wow and the 1985 concert, as well as research materials that include fieldnotes and tape logs pertaining to the pow-wow.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/omhhtml/omhhome.html (258 words)

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