Identifier: historyofnebrask00mort (find matches)
Title: History of Nebraska from the earliest explorations of the trans-Mississippi region
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Morton, J. Sterling (Julius Sterling), 1832-1902 Watkins, Albert, 1848-1923 Thomas, Augustus Orloff, 1863-1935 Beattie, James A., 1845- Wakeley, Arthur Cooper, 1855-
Subjects: Nebraska -- History
Publisher: Lincoln, Neb., Western Publishing and Engraving Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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s stated that in 1699they went to live near the Omahas. The Mis-souris have had a very checkered career. Theywere first seen in 1670 at the mouth of theMissouri river. Soon after 1700 they wereovercome by the Sac and Fox and other tribes.Most of them joined the Otoe tribe, but a fewwent with the Osage and some joined1 the Kan-sas tribe. They have never ceded land to theUnited States except in company with theOtoes, but they have been a party to everyOtoe transaction. To all intents and purposesthe Otoes and Missouris have been as onetribe during their occupancy of this state. The Otoes and Missouris ceded the south-east ;K>rtion of the state to the United Statesin 1833; this cession embraced the land southand west of the Nemaha. The remaining por-tion of land which they claimed, lay betweenthe Nemaha, Missouri, and Platte rivers,reaching as far west as Seward county. Thislast tract was ceded in 1854, when they re-turned to their reservation south of Beatrice. 30 HISTORY OF NEBRASKA
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&g OS s Z Q z < tn a ■- wx •2 « a; » 5 z wa KO z < w zz o ABORIGINAL OCCUPANTS 31 This they relinquished ill 1881, ami they nowlive in Oklahoma. Most of the lowas re-mained east of our border until 1836j whenthey were given a tract of land along the southbank of the Nemaha. This they retained inpart in individual allotment, but they remainedunder the Great Nemaha agency. This tribewas always closely associated with the Otoe,but was never under the same tribal organiza-tion as was the Missouri tribe. All threetribes belonged to the same branch of theSiouan family as the Winnebago. These cessions gave the United States titleto the east two-thirds of the state. The earli-est treaty by which they acquired title to landin this state was made with the Kansas in1825; by this treaty the Kansas ceded a semi-circular tract along the south line, reachingfrom Falls City to Red Willow county andnearly as far north as Lincoln. So it seemsthat the Kansas laid claim to at least part o

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