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  Missouri tribe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The tribe belonged to the Chiwere division of the Siouan linguistic family, with the Iowa and Oto.
The tribe lived near the mouth of the Grand River in Missouri, the mouth of the Missouri River, and a place called The Pinnacles in Saline County, Missouri.
According to the enthnographer James Mooney, the population of the tribe was about 200 families in 1702; 1000 persons in 1780; 300 in 1805; 80 in 1829, when they were living with the Otoe; and 13 in 1910; afterwards not separated from the Otoe.
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 Oto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oto, a West African dish of mashed yams and hard-boiled eggs.
Oto, the third album by Fluke, released in 1995
O.T.O., the abbreviation of Ordo Templi Orientis, a Thelemic fraternal organization
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oto   (131 words)

  
 Oto Indian Tribe History
The earliest reference to this tribe is found in the tradition which relates to the separation of the Chiwere group from the Winnebago.
In 1880 a part of the tribe removed to the lands of the Sauk and Fox Indians in Indian Territory, and in 1882 the remainder left their home in Nebraska and went to the same reservation.
The Oto tribe has never been important, their history being little more than an account of their struggles to defend themselves against their more powerful enemies, and of their migrations.
www.accessgenealogy.com /native/tribes/oto/otohist.htm   (975 words)

  
 Name Index
Anadarkos, A-na-dagh-cos Tribe, branch of Caddo Tribe, 24, 28, 31, 85, 148, A-430, A-443, A-447
Delaware Hainai Tribe, 19, 24, 39, 45, 70, 71, 72, 84, 85, 148, 149, A-385, A-429, A-430, A-443
, branch of the Lipan-Apache Tribe, 19, 22, 45, 83, 85, 91, 117, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 210, 262, 266, A-206, A-299, A-301, A-353, A-360, A-372, A-382, A-383, A-385, A-401, A-404, A-431, A-439, A-440, A-443, A-445, A-449, A-451, A-452, A-453, A-454, A-455, A-456
www.bourlandcivilwar.com /nameindex.htm   (1086 words)

  
 Omaha Tribe of Nebraska   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Omaha tribe lived across the Missouri River in the northwestern quadrant of Iowa for a number of years and hunted in the regions north to Pipestone, Minnesota.
As to all plains tribes and cultures, buffalo were essential to the tribe’s survival and livelihood.
Along with the Omaha Tribe, Sac and Fox Tribe, certain bands of the Sioux, Iowa, Oto and Missouri Tribes ceded their respective territorial claims in the state of Iowa (or east of the Missouri River).
www.omahatribeofnebraska.com /history.html   (1524 words)

  
 Kansas Counties
Otoe County embraced townships 21, 22, 23, and the northern 2/3 of 24 in ranges 1 through 4 east of the sixth principal meridian.
The tribal name is derived from 'wat-ota,' meaning 'seekers of pleasure' or 'lechers,' a name given them when they separated from their kindred tribes, the Iowa and Missouri.
Most of the territory once comprising Otoe is included in the present county of Butler, with the remainder in the eastern parts of Harvey and Sedgwick counties.
www.kshs.org /genealogists/places/counties.php?county=OE   (101 words)

  
 Ho-chunk History - Indian Country Wisconsin
Other tribal traditions relate how tribes such as the Quapaw, Missouri, Iowa, Oto, Omaha, and Ponca were once part of the Ho-chunk, but these other tribes continued to move farther west while the Ho-chunk stayed in Wisconsin.
In the years after Nicolet's visit, refugees from Algonkian-speaking tribes in southern Michigan fled to Wisconsin to escape the onslaught of the League of the Iroquois who fought with tribes as far away as Minnesota to monopolize rich midwestern beaver lands.
During the 1600s and 1700s, the tribe spread west and south and eventually established villages throughout the Fox River valley and Lake Winnebago regions, the Wisconsin River valley below Portage, the upper tributaries of the Rock River valley, and the upper Mississippi River valley.
www.mpm.edu /wirp/ICW-150.html   (1406 words)

  
 The Oto and Missouria Tribes in Nebraska
Portrait of the Oto woman Hayne Hudjihini, or "Eagle of Delight." She was one of a group of Native American leaders who visited the White House in 1822.
The Oto tribe gave this state its name, but they were not native to the region.
The Oto had moved out of Iowa and were living in an earthlodge village on the Platte River not far from its juncture with the Missouri, near present-day Plattsmouth.
www.nebraskastudies.org /0300/stories/0301_0105.html   (829 words)

  
 Indian Land Cessions: List of Tribes
Iowa tribe and the band of Sauk and Fox of the Missouri (residing W. of the state of Missouri).
Omaha, Pawnee, Oto, Missouri, and Sauk and Fox of the Missouri.
Oto, Missouri, Omaha, and Yankton and Santee bands of Sioux.
memory.loc.gov /ammem/amlaw/llss_browse.html   (669 words)

  
 Oto Nation
The Oto, a tribe of North American Indians, lived in Wisconsin in prehistoric times.
The Oto lived in oven-shaped earth houses when cultivating along the river but used tepees while on excursions into the plains to hunt bison.
Despite several peace treaties between 1817 and 1841, the Oto sometimes joined the OSAGE to raid in Nebraska.
www.indians.org /welker/oto.htm   (231 words)

  
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OTO INDIANS Prehistoric Indians were the earliest inhabitants of this area.
By 1760, the Oto and part of the Missouri Tribe occupied an earth lodge village near here on the west bank of the Platte River, a short distance above the mouth of the Elkhorn.
In 1854, the tribes ceded their lands along the Platte and Elkhorn and moved to a reservation on the Blue River near the Nebraska-Kansas border.
www.panesu.org /subject/markers/Oto-Indians   (210 words)

  
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A tribe of the Iroquois confederation, formerly occupying the country south of Oneida Lake, Oneida county, N. Y., and latterly including the upper waters of the Susquehanna.
According to authentic tradition, the Oneida was the second tribe to accept the proposition of Dekanawida and Hiawatha to form a defensive and offensive league of all the tribes of men for the promotion of mutual welfare and security.
The popular name of a Pueblo tribe, constituting the Zuñian linguistic family, residing in a single permanent pueblo known by the same name, on the north bank of upper Zuni River, Valencia County, New Mexico, and, in summer, the three neighboring farming villages of Pescado, Nutria, and Ojo Caliente.
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 The Flag of the Otoe-Missouria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The bear, the eagle, the beaver, the bison, the deer, the owl and the pigeon are the clan totems of the Otoe-Missouria of Oklahoma.
These symbols comprise the basis of the seal of the tribe that is found at the center of their white tribal flag.
Because of the son's actions, the tribe that was driven away became known as the Otoe or lechers (ENAT, 172).
users.aol.com /Donh523/navapage/misso.htm   (442 words)

  
 Swtext Missouri Tribes 1d
Representatives of this tribe were a party to a treaty made in 1830, relinquishing lands in Missouri to the Whites.
Historically the Missouri tribe itself is remembered particularly for the tragic manner in which it was almost destroyed, but, as in many other cases, its name has attained a distinction out of all proportion to the aboriginal standing of the people.
During the eighteenth century and the first part of the nineteenth, the Osage were at war with practically all the other tribes of the Plains and a large number of those of the woodlands, to many of which their name was a synonym for enemy.
www.hiddenhistory.com /PAGE3/swsts/Missour1.htm   (1679 words)

  
 MIssouri
The Missouri people were a small tribe, and when first encountered by Marquette in 1673 had a village at the mouth of the Grand River.
The survivors lived among the Osage, Kaw and Oto, and in 1829 the Missouris formally united with the Oto tribe.
Between those two Creeks and behind a Small willow island in the bend is a Prairie in which the Missouri Indians once lived, and the spot where 300 of them fell a sacrifice to the fury of the Sauk.
www.nps.gov /jeff/LewisClark2/TheJourney/NativeAmericans/Missouri.htm   (465 words)

  
 PONCA TRIBE OF NEBRASKA community profiles
The Ponca Tribe signed several treaties in 1817, 1825, 1858 was originally designated reservation lands along the Missouri River recognized in a treaty with the United States signed in 1865.
The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska was terminated in 1962 by an act of Congress, Since that time, many of the cultural aspects of the Ponca people have disappeared.
Although the Tribe does have offices in Norfolk and Sioux City, the facilities are rented and are not Public facilities are plentiful in the two major metropolitan areas of Nebraska, Omaha and Lincoln.
www.mnisose.org /profiles/ponca.htm   (2901 words)

  
 Lewis and Clark, Council Bluffs, and the Oto
Lewis and Clark, Council Bluffs, and the Oto
On July 28, the explorers met a Missouri Native who told them he had been on a bison hunt with the Oto and would relay a message to inform the Oto of the council Lewis and Clark requested.
On August 18, the chief representing the Oto, Little Thief, and the chief representing the Missouri, Big Horse, signed a peace treaty.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/history_oto_tribe/55143   (310 words)

  
 National Geographic: Lewis & Clark—Tribes—Oto Indians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Lewis and Clark's expedition first encountered the Oto settlements in summer 1804, when the Oto were away buffalo hunting and their villages were empty.
The Oto were farmer-hunters, growing and harvesting corn, beans, and squash, but also hunting bison and other game to supplement their diet.
In March 1805, however, Little Thief joined a delegation of Oto, Missouri, and other local tribes to meet President Jefferson in Washington, D.C. By the mid-1860s there were about 400 Oto-Missouri remaining, and they settled on a reservation on the Big Blue River between Kansas and Nebraska.
www.nationalgeographic.com /lewisandclark/record_tribes_015_2_7.html   (449 words)

  
 Explorers
Oto: (OH toe) This American Indian tribe is closely related to the Missouri Indians.
Sacagawea: (sa CA ga WE uh) Popularly known as Sacajawea, she was a member of the Shoshone Indian tribe and the only woman to go on the Lewis and Clark expedition.
This nickname came from a practice used by some neighboring tribes in which the heads of infants were deformed so that they appeared to have sloped foreheads.
www.nps.gov /jeff/LewisClark2/Education/Glossary&PronunciationGuide.htm   (3360 words)

  
 Native-American Tribes
In 1803, Lewis and Clark met with the lesser chiefs of the Otoe tribe at the...
This act, in effect, would solve the “Indian problem” the government was having with the Native Americans by eliminating the different Indian tribes and merging them into white society as “regular citizens.” This would effectively eradicate the Indian lifestyle and make...
Being a “half-breed,” Joseph was never allowed to have full rights in the eyes of the law, and even his own tribe might not have accepted...
www.suite101.com /welcome.cfm/history_oto_tribe   (532 words)

  
 Moses and Eliza Merrill
The Otoes, as well as their other nomadic brothers, were literally unprepared and unconstituted to take the full-time demands inseparably linked to agriculture which now was to comprise their way of life, and which regardless of how many treaties they signed in all good faith, they could never fulfill.
From this time on, the Oto tribe fell into further disarray by choosing sides for either their fallen chief or for the disloyal braves.
All that remains for us today as a physical remembrance of the arduous labors and difficulties experienced by Moses and Eliza is a very large stone fireplace with a tall chimney reaching to the sky as it stands starkly alone near cottonwood trees said to have been planted by the Merrills.
www.campmerrill.com /Moses-Eliza.htm   (2494 words)

  
 Home Page
The Missouri Indians were part of the Southern Sioux tribes who lived along the Missouri River near the present-day border of Missouri and Nebraska.
Many of the Missouris and Otos were away hunting buffalo when the Lewis and Clark expedition encountered their towns in July of 1804.
During the council, the Indians were told they were the "children of a new great father" who would provide them with trade and protection in place of their unreliable commerce with the French and the Spanish.
mohist.itgo.com   (436 words)

  
 Oto - IBWiki
As with many parts of Nouvelle Gaulle, Oto is named after the native american tribe that did and does inhabit the region.
When Louisianne incorporated the region, the settlers of the region opted to pick the native american names in honor of those who had welcomed them.
Oto focuses on agriculture, as do most of the plains départements.
ib.frath.net /w/Oto   (67 words)

  
 INDIAN AFFAIRS: LAWS AND TREATIES. Vol. 2, Treaties
It is admitted by the Ottoe and Missouri tribe of Indians, that they reside within the territorial limits of the United States, acknowledge their supremacy, and claim their protection.
The United States agree to receive the Ottoe and Missouri tribe of Indians into their friendship, and under their protection, and to extend to them, from time to time, such benefits and acts of kindness as may be convenient, and seem just and proper to the President of the United States.
And the Chiefs and Warriors, as aforesaid, promise and engage, that their tribe will never, by sale, exchange, or as presents, supply any nation, tribe, or band of Indians, not in amity with the United States, with guns, ammunition, or other implements of war.
digital.library.okstate.edu /kappler/Vol2/treaties/oto0256.htm   (299 words)

  
 Tribes of Iowa
Tradition assigns to this tribe a single origin with the Winnebago, Oto, and Missouri, and it is borne out by the close linguistic relationship between them.
This tribe is said to have had the same origin as the Iowa and to have moved with them and the Oto to Iowa River, where the Iowa remained while the others continued on to the Missouri.
Representatives of this tribe were a party to a treaty made in 1846, ceding Iowa lands to the Whites.
www.whitemoonraven.com /maps/iowa.html   (1394 words)

  
 Conquerors - The Roots of New World Horsemanship - Chaptyer 26 - Santa Fe - Origins of the Mustang - by Deb Bennett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Until the Spaniards invaded their country in the seventeenth century, it had been usual for whole tribes of Apaches or Navajos to encamp near a pueblo for the purpose of exchanging dressed buffalo hides, meat, fat, and deerskins for the pots, woven cotton blankets, and maize of the pueblos.
In 1606, the acquisition of horses by the Plains and Pueblo tribes alike was stepped up when Juán Martinez de Montoya was granted an encomienda of the Jémez pueblo, entitling him to the fruits of their labor.
Deplorable though it was, slave-trading by the Spaniards was hardly a novelty among either the Pueblans or the Plains tribes, as the tale of Xabe (told in the previous chapter) reveals.
www.equibooks.com /conquerors-excerpt.html   (3577 words)

  
 Missionary Moses Merrill Settles in Nebraska
It was an arduous trip, but when they arrived they found that the Oto nation had just signed a treaty with the U.S. that ceded or gave up land.
[Read more about Indian treaties here.] In exchange, the tribe were promised yearly cash payments (or annuities), a grist mill, livestock and equipment to help them learn how to farm, and the promise of a government sponsored school.
They chose a site on the Platte about 8 miles west of Bellevue, the government built them a log cabin and schoolhouse, and about half of the Oto tribe moved close by from their village about 30 miles north near present day Yutan.
www.nebraskastudies.org /0400/stories/0401_0127.html   (359 words)

  
 CAOTO - Origin Purpose and Structure
Conversely, no member of the Chthonic-Auranian OTO has any right to expect services from the Order at large, or from any temple of which s/he is not an active supporting member.
Some branches of the OTO are structured so as to teach or impart various techniques to their members.
The Chthonic-Auranian OTO is still quite small* (23 members worldwide: 2 in Australia, 1 in the Caribbean, & the rest in the US), 5 of us (thus-far) functioning in the Sovereign Sanctuary, with three additional members asserting their Will as Citizens of the Galaxy.
www.caoto.org /siebert.html   (2289 words)

  
 Omaha Tribe of Nebraska: Attractions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
This was the homeland of the Omaha Tribe long before white settlers came to the Great Plains.
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.
The explorers stayed near the site for a week and held a conference with three chiefs of the Oto tribe who had come to make peace with the absent Omaha.
www.omahatribeofnebraska.com /attractions.html   (544 words)

  
 Missouri Indian Tribe
The most closely allied tribes are the Iowa and the Oto.
Marquette's autograph map of 1673, which is perhaps the earliest authentic notice of the tribe, locates the Semesssrit on Missouri river, apparently as far north as the Platte.
It is stated that Tonti met the tribe a day and half's journey from the Village of the Tamaroa, which was on the Mississippi, 6 leagues below Illinois river.
www.nanations.com /missouri   (304 words)

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